Day in history for October 1, 2003

1853 -- 150 years ago

A judge has decided that all regular crossing pedestrians have the right-of-way and drivers must pull up their horses. Pedestrians need not run, he said.

1878 -- 125 years ago

There will be a Sunday school convention in Reynolds on Tuesday, Oct. 22, for Rural, Bowling, Edgington, Andalusia, Buffalo Prairie and Drury townships.

1903 -- 100 years ago

A trustee deed for $7,500,000 on the Rock Island Improvement Company was filed yesterday.

1928 -- 75 years ago

Radio station WOC, Davenport, is being given assistance in controversy with the federal radio commission by William Butterworth, head of Deere and Co., Moline, and president of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

1953 -- 50 years ago

New York Store, Moline's oldest department store and among the three oldest department stores in the Quad-Cities today will observe the 69th anniversary of its founding in 1884. On the first day of business nearly three-quarters of a century ago, five employees reported for work. Today, the personnel of all departments number more than 200.

1978 -- 25 years ago

Jim Hecker says he's ``just a little old Iowa farm boy.'' To about 28,000 Deere And Co. employees around the nation, however, Hecker is much more than that. The 31-year-old East Moline resident was recently named an international representative in the United Auto Workers Union's agricultural implement department.

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