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Day in history for October 24, 2006

1856 -- 150 years ago: Frank H. Smith, proprietor of the City Hotel, has made a number of changes in the appearance of his premises. In a three-story brick addition will be an eating saloon.
1881 -- 125 years ago: General Hoffman left for St. Louis to attend a waterways convention.
1906 -- 100 years ago: The student body of Augustana College rebelled this morning and refused to attend classes as a result of action taken by the board of directors, who held that they had no authority to modify the decision of the synod regarding the playing of intercollegiate athletic contests and basketball.
1931 -- 75 years ago: The four Vroman brothers, Henry, Edward, Albert and Harry, all of Edgington Township, will pick corn in the annual husking contest of the Rock Island County Farm Bureau next Saturday at the P.L. Metzler farm in Rural Township.
1956 -- 50 years ago: A three-acre grass fire in Babcock Addition was the seventh fire in two weeks in the rural area surrounding Silvis. The fire started at 11:50 a.m. in the 10th Ave. section of Babcock when a housewife started to burn papers in an open incinerator.
1981 -- 25 years ago: The National Safety Council of the U.S. Department of Labor has awarded first place to Hammond-Henry District Hospital, Geneseo, in the 1980 Hospital Safety contest.

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1863 -- 150 years ago: A petition is being circulated asking the city council to order awell bored in Market Square. It would be a great accommodation to the public.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 p.m. on May 18 the Mississippi River flooded its banks atRock Island and destroyed the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber Co. and damagedRock Island Arsenal power plant. Total loss is estimated at $100,000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of Sough Rock Island Township are circulating apetition favoring the annexation of that area to the City of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: A group of state members of the National Grandmothers Clubmeeting in Rock Island are making plans to petition for the observance of a NationalGrandmothers Day.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Deere and Co. reported today that its U.S. and Canadian sales forthe first half of the 1963 fiscal year set an all time record of $323,716.628.
1988 -- 25 years ago: William G. Lawrence, first administrative director, has retired fromPECO Enterprises, Inc. Prior to his service at PECO, Mr. Lawrence was the civilianpersonnel officer at the Rock Island Arsenal.

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