QC Capture, a feature of The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus, allows you to upload your favorite photos directly onto our Web site, QCOnline.com. Several of these photographs will be featured in print editions of the newspapers. To share your photos with people in the Quad-Cities and beyond, visit QCOnline.com and click on the QC Capture link. Then you can upload your photos into several categories. If you'd like to see your photos in print, make sure your caption includes the names and hometowns of the people in the photo. Use QC Capture as often as you like -- it's free, and it's easy! Read The Dispatch and The Rock IslandArgus regularly, and visit QC Capture to check out your fellow Quad-Citians' photographs.
Today is Saturday, May 18, the 138th day of 2013. There are 227 days left in the year. 1863 -- 150 years ago: A large variety of children's wagons and gigs have arrived in thecity and are being sold at war prices. 1888 -- 125 years ago: All Rock Island retail houses, with the exception of a clothingstore and a jewelry store, have agreed to early closing hours during the summer months.The store will be closed at 8 p.m. 1913 -- 100 years ago: Baseball enthusiasts in Rock Island are attempting to raise$20,000 to keep the Island City Park open, despite the fact that the city has no franchise inorganized baseball this year. 1938 -- 75 years ago: The organization of a third rural young people's unit will beundertaken tomorrow night at the Milan Presbyterian Church, with Mrs. Mildred K.Wellman, home advisor, and Robert Smith, county farm adviser in charge. 1963 -- 50 years ago: Deere & Co. will begin a "big switch" on its telephone systemMonday morning. The extension numbers of all 1,600 telephones on the firm's EastMoline and Moline exchanges will be changed Monday morning. 1988 -- 25 years ago: East Moline's June Jamboree VI -- Nostalgia Days, will seemlike a '60s revival with the appearance of stars like Bobby Vee, Freddie Cannon, PeterNoone, Turtles, The Grass Roots and Lou Christie. This year's festival has beenexpanded to five days, June 22-26, at the Northeast Park complex.