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The annual Festival of Trees Holiday Parade will begin at 11 a.m. on River Drive in Davenport. It will include character balloons, high school marching bands, and more. Call (563) 324-3378 or email for details.

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  Today is Saturday, Nov. 21, the325th day of 2009. There are40 days left in the year.

1859 -- 150 years ago: For the past week, great numbers of migratory birds and water fowl have been observed flying south.

1884 -- 125 years ago: The Mississippi River at Rock Island is in a sad state of decline.

1909 -- 100 years ago: Strikers at the Rock Island Plow Co. have been enjoined to refrain from interfering with strike breakers.

1934 -- 75 years ago: Despite the drought and a four-month embargo caused by low water, the upper Mississippi River again broke its record as a freight carrier during the last season.

1959 -- 50 years ago: The loss was expected to top $5,000 in a burglary early today at the Big Cowbell Tavern, East Moline. Joe DeJaegher, manager, and police were tabulating the loss in cash and checks.

1984 -- 25 years ago:Tuesday's guilty verdict in the retrial of chiropractor James Klindt was the dramatic conclusion to a legal ordeal that began 21 months ago when his wife disappeared from the couple's northeast Davenport home. For Eugene Monahan, Joyce Klindt's father, the decision came as a welcome relief after the first trial in September ended in a hung jury.









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