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Day in history for April 14, 2004

1854 -- 150 years ago: Farm yields in Rock Island County are: wheat, 20 to 30 bushels an acre; corn, 50 to 75 bushels; oats, 40 to 60. But where improved methods of farming have been introduced, the totals are much higher.
1879 -- 125 years ago: Former alderman M.S. O'Neil leaves tonight to join the Rock Island colony in Trego County, Kansas.
1904 -- 100 years ago: A call has been issued for a Good Roads convention to be held in Springfield May 3 and 4.
1929 -- 75 years ago: Emery Johnson, 12, Rock Island, and Mary Louise Willits, 14, of Joy, won an Argus contest to name a cat in a comic strip.
1954 -- 50 years ago: Lucky thing for 3-year-old Larry Jensen that his mother was home Saturday. Larry got all mixed up while inspecting the inside of the family's clothes dryer. After Larry entered the machine his brother Gregory, 4 1/2, came by and turned it on. Larry went for a spin. Mrs. Jensen discovered the turn of events and rescued Larry. The boy was unharmed except for being a little bruised, overheated and dizzy. Sunday there was a big lock on the dryer.
1979 -- 25 years ago: Selling diesel-engine passenger cars poses no problem for Quad-Cities auto dealerships. The difficulty is getting a supply to sell. ''We don't get very many, and we sell every one we get,'' said Don McPherson of Volkswagen-BMW, East Moline. In February, 19,000 diesel cars were sold in the U.S., versus 6,000 last year.

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1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.

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