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Opera @ Augustana will present The Little Thieves of Bethlehem by Paul O. Stuart and Sally M. Gall at 8 p.m. at Wallenberg Hall, Denkmann Memorial Building, Augustana College, 3520 7th Ave., Rock Island. Tickets are $10; $8 for seniors, students, and children, and are available online. Call (309) 794-7306 or email for details.

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  Today is Monday, Nov. 23, the327th day of 2009. There are38 days left in the year.

1859 -- 150 years ago: A suspicious-looking floating crib has been hanging about our levee for several days.

1884 -- 125 years ago: St. Luke's Hospital in Rock Island will be opened at 3 p.m. on Nov. 25.

1909 -- 100 years ago: The New Harper Cafe will be opened for business next week.

1934 -- 75 years ago: A Rock Island Lines official has assured the city that the roundhouse in Rock Island will not be removed.

1959 -- 50 years ago: Mezzo-soprano Marcia Baldwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Baldwin of Moline, will make her New York debut in a recital in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday.

1984 -- 25 years ago:Thursday was the day we gave thanks, but today was the day for merchants to do so. They could be thankful because today was the traditional first day of Christmas shopping season and SouthPark Mall was busy. Shoppers lined up outside Younkers and stampeded into the store when it opened at 8 a.m. The early opening was because of a sale. The scene was repeated at Petersen Harned Von Maur when it opened an hour later.









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