Day in history for February 15, 2005

1855 -- 150 years ago

A.B. Kingsbury was the Rock Island man who drove 300 turkeys to St. Paul and sold them quickly. The St. Paul Pioneer reports that Kingsbury raced his horse Peanuts against St. Paul's best horse. Peanuts won. All of St. Paul, without its women, came to see the race.

1880 -- 125 years ago

There is much floating ice in the Mississippi, which is still unsafe for boats.

1905 -- 100 years ago

Police Matron Hill of Davenport will address the Rock Island WCTU in the home of Mrs. L.D. Mudge.

1930 -- 75 years ago

Charles A. Weyerhaeuser, 63, prominent lumber man formerly of Rock Island, died in India while he was on a world cruise.

1955 -- 50 years ago

Three Rock Island city officials and a representative of an engineering firm will go to the Dixon district office of the Illinois highway division tomorrow in an attempt to solve objections of the highway division to 5th Avenue-improvement plans.

1980 -- 25 years ago

Montgomery Elevator Co., 30 20th St., Moline, was the target of a silver thief. Plant superintendent Art Phelps told police someone took 4.96 pounds of silver brads from a safe in the plant sometime between Feb. 8 and 10. The brads were 99.9 percent silver. The firm paid $2,044 for the brads when purchased some time ago.

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