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Day in history for January 8, 2007

1857 -- 150 years ago: The Rock Island city council wants the city limits definitely established. It requests that residents living in what is now known as the disputed territory meet with the council this afternoon.
1882 -- 125 years ago: The Rock Island city council has voted that cows can no longer be allowed to roam the streets and sidewalks of the city.
1907 -- 100 years ago: The Tri-City Railway Co. today announced that the first of 35 new street cars are being built at the Rock Island shops of the company.
1932 -- 75 years ago: Election of officers and a discussion of prohibition were highlights of the meeting of the Tri-City Federation of Labor last night at the Labor Temple. Ben A. Jacobson, Rock Island, was reelected president.
1957 -- 50 years ago: A Rock Island youth, the first in the Western Illinois area, has been nominated for appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs. He is Dennis Sears, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Sears, 3203 10th Ave.
1982 -- 25 years ago: Some of Moline's history was crumbling with age. So the city clerk had it laminated. The $1,900 preservation work was done quickly, Jane Lundeen said, because a traveling book binder was in the Quad-Cities, laminating pages and rebinding record books for Rock Island County.

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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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