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GIRLS' STATE TRACK AND FIELD UPDATES

Day in history for August 11, 2006

1856 -- 150 years ago: At Franckel's may be found a new lot of A No. 1 cigars, also chewing tobacco at 80 cents per pound.
1881 -- 125 years ago: Biegl's Band seranaded The Argus last night, playing many popular airs.
1906 -- 100 years ago: The executive committee of the Old Settler's Assn. passed a resolution in favor of restoring and preserving the home of the late Col. George Davenport on Arsenal Island. Cooperation of citizens is requested.
1931 -- 75 years ago: Jewelry valued at $1,000 is missed from the home of George H. McDonald, assistant general counsel of the Modern Woodmen of America. At no time, Mr. McDonald said, did the house appear to have been entered by burglars, for there was no evidence of ransacking.
1956 -- 50 years ago: Roaring flames of a spectacular gas fire flared high into the air at 21st St. and 5th Ave., Rock Island, this morning until utility workmen could shut off the supply to a broken gas main. Damage was estimated at $25,000. Hundreds of spectators watched the fire until it was subdued.
1981 -- 25 years ago: Teresia Ward, Colona, has at least 11 reasons to grin about her birthday today. She was born 11 years ago, at 11:11 p.m. on Aug. 11, and it was her father's birthday. Teresia is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Ward.

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1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.

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