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Show ROCK ISLAND BARS FORCED TO CLOSE ROCK ISLAND, 111., Feb. 23. Fifty-three Fifty-three saloons and twenty-seven wholesale whole-sale liquor houses closed their doors today in obedience to a federal order prohibiting , the sale of liquor within half a mile of the Rock Island arsenal. Officials announced that all disorderly houses within five miles of the arsenal will be suppressed. Rock Island, East . Moline, Moline, Ills., and Davenport, j la., are within the five-mile limit. Forty saloons and twelve wholesale j liquor houses outside the half-mile limit I remain open. j i |