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Day in history for April 18, 2005

1855 -- 150 years ago: Yearly salary of the mayor of Rock Island was listed as $100; Muscatine mayor, $50; and Davenport mayor, $400.
1880 -- 125 years ago: The Rev. George G. Palmer preached at the First Methodist Church on ''Secret Discipleship.''
1905 -- 100 years ago: The Rock Island City Council referred a resolution to abolish free lunch in saloons to the incoming council. Some saloon keepers favored the move; some opposed it.
1930 -- 75 years ago: The Quad-Cities subsidiary of the United Light and Power Co. released information that hinted at the ''possibility of natural gas distribution'' in the area.
1955 -- 50 years ago: World-famous scientist Albert Einstein died today. The 76-year-old world-acclaimed scientist died at Princeton Hospital at 1:15 a.m. Born in Ulm, Germany, March 14, 1879, of middle-class Jewish parents, he was swept to international fame by the theory of relativity which he devised at the age of 26.
1980 -- 25 years ago: Valspar Corp., East Moline, is in the process of more than doubling the size of its offices and laboratory to increase production capacity at the plant. Many of the Valspar paints used by major local industries are custom-made in its East Moline labs.

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1863 — 150 years ago: Messrs. J. and M. Rosenfield have moved their leather and hidestore to the building formerly occupied by Temple Bufords's store. They buy and sellhides, pelts, furs, wool, beeswax, lard, tallow, etc.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The Rock Island Lumber Company has recovered 5,000 of the8,000 logs that were carried away by the Mississippi River flood last week.
1913 -- 100 years ago: John J. Ullemeyer has been awarded the contract to furnish RockIsland fire and police department members with uniforms, at the city's expense.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Work on Aledo's new $38,000 swimming pool was started thismorning at South Park when ground for the pool was broken by Mayor John W. Murphy.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Students and teacher at Moline High School called today "MissLeona Day" day at the school in honor of the government teacher who retires at theend of the school term. Although she's been teaching for 43 years at the school, Miss Dayfound a new way of arriving at the school this morning. At 7:30 a.m., a police squad carpulled up in front of Miss Day's home and escorted her to school. A caravan of students' cars joined the procession along the way.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Barbecue cooking and riverfront antics are planned for Discover the
River Day Saturday in Leach Park, Bettendorf. A 5K run, wind surfing, a canoe race, hogcalling and more will round out the day under the Interstate 74 bridge.

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