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GIRLS' STATE TRACK AND FIELD UPDATES

Day in history for October 3, 2006

1856 -- 150 years ago: The editor of the Medical and Surgical Journal comes out strongly in favor of hoops. He says nothing can be more appropriate during the heat of summer than these light frames to raise the weight of the skirts.
1881 -- 125 years ago: Superintendent Kemble reports a total enrollment during September in the public schools of 1,837 pupils.
1906 -- 100 years ago: President M.H. Sexton has declined re-election as president of the Rock Island Baseball Assn. He has been connected with baseball since 1896.
1931 -- 75 years ago: Two small stills were seized in Rock Island today and yesterday by deputy sheriffs in liquor raids. The officers also found about 40 gallons of distilled liquor and 500 gallons of mash.
1956 -- 50 years ago: Industrial employment in the Quad-City area dipped to 42,859 persons by Sept. 1, hitting its lowest mark during the past 12 months. The figure was 565 persons below the previous month, a decline of 1.3 percent.
1981 -- 25 years ago: The Rock Island County Board created a public building commission, a move that will allow construction of a new county jail without voter approval. The five-member commission, to be appointed by County Board Chairman Paul Mulcahey with the approval of the board, will draft jail construction or remodeling plans.

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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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