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Today in history for Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2012
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Today is Friday, Oct. 12, the 286th day of 2012. There are 80 days left in the year. 1862 -- 150 years ago: We are indebted to John Rhodenbaugh for fine specimens of very large apples from his orchard near Richland Grove. 1887 -- 125 years ago: Electric companies are bidding $100 down to $69 per year per pole for street illumination. The total cost would be about $6,300. 1912 -- 100 years ago: Hundreds of members of the Odd Fellow Lodge attended cornerstone laying ceremonies for their new building in Rock Island yesterday. 1937 -- 75 years ago: A split in the ranks of the Central Townsend Club developed last night, and the president and part of the members withdrew to form the General Welfare Forum. 1962 -- 50 years ago: A new super record and sound equipment center will be opened in Rock Island about Nov. 1 by Van Goor Record Shops Inc. It was announced jointly today by Ed Van Goor, form owner, and Hyman Goldman, president of Hyman's Furniture Store Inc, owner of the building at 1715 2nd Ave. 1987 -- 25 years ago: Deere & Co. put its machinery to use for a community-minded grading project at Northeast Park, East Moline, that will mean a permanent home for the city's soccer players. "We've been trying for a good number of years to get a soccer field graded," Mr. Standaert said. "Deere deserves a lot of credit for this." Deere's help saved the city about $20,000 in contracting costs for the field. 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
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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