Brussels Flour Sack Tapestries At Dinah Bakery
Visitors to Brussels can view 16 tapestries in the Dinah pastry shop made from embroidered U S flour sacks from mills in Kansas Illinois California Oregon Utah and Oklahoma. The display honors WWI relief and features brands like Tip Top and Snow Drop with a 1917 Hoover shipment link.
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Brussels
Kansas
Wisconsin
Illinois
California
Oregon
Utah
Oklahoma
United States
Belgium
Moulart
Alton Roller Mills Co
Alton
Dinah
East Iowa Science Fair Announces 9 Special Awards
Officials of the Eastern Iowa Science Fair announced nine special awards by professional and technical societies for the March 26 27 event at Coe College fieldhouse. Awards include a $50 first prize and $35 second prize from the Iowa division of the American Cancer Society for cancer research related work.
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Iowa
Coe College
John Combellick
American Cancer Society
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
U.S. Air Force
Towa Assn. of
American Assn. of University Women
Iowa Medical Society
American Institute of Industrial Engineers
Iowa Sociological Assn
Combellick
Eastern Iowa Sci
Industrial Engineers Tour Goss Plant in Cedar Rapids
Members of the Cedar Rapids area chapter of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers will tour the new seven million dollar Miehle Goss Dexter plant Thursday at 7 30 p m The Goss plant started in 1964 covers 144000 square feet and plans call for shipping 16 million dollars worth of printing presses at full capacity Participants should enter by the rear entrance and assemble in the lunch room.
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Cedar Rapids Area
American Institute of Industrial Engineers
Miehle-Goss-Dexter, Inc
Goss
Cedar Rapids
Mass Grave Found in Ukrainian City of Kher son
Pravda reports a mass grave in Kher son Ukraine holding 1276 adults and 80 child skulls. Soviet citizens slain by machine guns bayonets and rifle butts. Discovery came as workers dug a basement, marking a grim Nazi atrocity.
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Moscow
UPI
Kherson
Pravda
Communist Party
Flour Sacks Display at Hoover Library in Iowa
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch preserves about 2,000 embroidered flour sacks with roughly 100 on public display. The sacks, part of Hoover's personal WWI relief belongings, include textiles made into dresses purses and pillows and were turned over to the library with other memorabilia.
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Brussels
Herbert Hoover
West Branch
Hoover
Wokingham Councilman Proposes Indian Bean Tree Planting
Sentence Yourself: councilman Alfred Skedgel proposes planting an Indian bean tree to deter vandals who damage trees. He says tradition claims anyone who cuts an Indian bean tree is cursed with bad luck.
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Wokingham
England
UPI
Alfred Skedgel
Skedgel
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