Day in history for April 23, 2006

1856 -- 150 years ago

The steamboat Harry Graff, coming down the river yesterday, ran on the draw pier and bilged so badly that it was with difficulty she was got ashore.

1881 -- 125 years ago

Next Wednesday Charley Campbell's New York company will present ''The Galley Slave'' at Harper's Theater.

1906 -- 100 years ago

F.O. Herzog of Rock Island received word from his mother, Mrs. T.A. Herzog, that she escaped injury in the San Francisco earthquake.

1931 -- 75 years ago

Protest against legislation which would prevent trot line fishing in the Rock River and Sturgeon Bay was registered at Springfield by Thomas A. Journy, president of the Rock Island Rod and Reel Club.

1956 -- 50 years ago

A proposal that the City of Rock Island employ about eight women, to be called ''Parkettes,'' for issuance of notices to overtime parking violators, will be presented to the City Council. Use of women for this purpose would release three policemen in the traffic division for other police duties.

1981 -- 25 years ago

After 20 years without a doctor, Woodhull, population 900, soon will have two. Dr. Fares Aris and Dr. James Klein, both now working in the emergency room at St. Mary's Hospital, Galesburg, plan to set up a family practice.

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