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Day in history for May 26, 2008

1858 -- 150 years ago: We see a complaint in some quarters that the wheat, due to its rapid growth, is in danger of running all to straw.
1883 -- 125 years ago: The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, the greatest engineering feat of the century, was celebrated today in Brooklyn and New York.
1908 -- 100 years ago: Hundreds of visitors got their first view of the new Safety Building yesterday at the formal opening.
1933 -- 75 years ago: City officials of Rock Island have under consideration a $40,000 street improvement project that may be advanced in conjunction with the Illinois Relief Commission's program of Andquot;work reliefAndquot; under funds obtained from the federal government. It tentatively calls for the relaying of brick paving on 30th Street south from 7th Avenue to 18th Avenue.
1958 -- 50 years ago: Walt Scott, special editorial cartoonist for NEA Service, Inc., receives a George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.
1983 -- 25 years ago: Alleman High School today ended its nearly three-month search for a basketball coach to replace Don Morris by naming Marissa High School coach Jim Egan - who also will teach new computer-science courses. Egan, who played for Morris at Alleman from 1968 to 1970, accepted the job this morning. Andquot;It's hard to believe,Andquot; said Egan.

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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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