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Day in history for March 27, 2008

1858 -- 150 years ago: We hear much complaint of a hole on the Camden Road. Teams coming in with wheat and other things have a great deal of difficulty there. The board appropriated $500 to have the hole fixed, but it still has not been done.
1883 -- 125 years ago: Richard Mansill says he has not known as dry a March for the past 40 years.
1908 -- 100 years ago: Assistant Attorney General C.W. Trickett of Kansas will address a meeting at the Illinois Theater tonight. He will relate his experiences in fighting the saloons in his state.
1933 -- 75 years ago: The annual campagin for funds to aid Zionist immigrants to establish themselves in Palestine was opened in Rock Island last night with a banquet in the Odd Fellows Hall.
1958 -- 50 years ago: Connie Arndt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Arndt, Rock Island, puts homework ahead of TV and radio. Connie, a Rock Island High School junior, was one of many who participated in a poll on study habits at the school.
1983 -- 25 years ago: William A. Hewitt returned to the Deere And Co. Administrative Center auditorium Saturday, but he wasn't here to talk about tractors and combines. Hewitt, former chairman of Deere, now U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica, told the Quad Cities World Affairs Conference about his first impressions of Jamaica.

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1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.

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