Retired Daywitt Returns to Quaker Oats Plant Work
Mark Daywitt 71, longtime Cedar Rapids Quaker Oats employee, returned to work after a 1939 retirement. He resumes in the plant where he once toiled, recalling a 105 degree heat room, the 350 to 18,000 horsepower growth, and his Army Navy E pin. He walks twice daily from his Ellis Boulevard home, cherishes Cedar Rapids, and plans to keep working while helping the community and church.
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Mark Daywitt
Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Company
Ellis Boulevard NW
St. James Methodist Church
Mark
Daywitt
Williams
Old Grand Hotel
Quaker Oats
Earl
C Street
George
C. E. Snyder
Des Moines
Evi
Quaker Oats Story Through Fires and Names
The Cedar Rapids mill history traces fires that rebuilt into larger plants, the rise of Quaker Oats from North Star to Consolidated Oatmeal and American Cereal to the famed name, with national and international growth and wartime plant operations shaping its identity. The enduring Quaker figure on packages helped new eating habits across America.
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North Star Mill
Stuart and Douglas
Douglas and Stuart
Consolidated Oatmeal Company
American Cereal Company
Quaker Oats Company
Quaker Oats
Quaker Oats Cedar Rapids Plant a World Leading Mill
The Cedar Rapids Quaker Oats plant stands as the largest cereal mill and a model of efficiency in a midwestern city. It operates with 22 million kilowatts yearly and moves 250 carloads of grain daily during peak seasons. Daily outputs include rolled oats, cornmeal, puffed wheat and rice, flour, pancake flour, and animal feed. The facility can mill 200,000 bushels per day and store nine and a half million, with vast grain elevators and a capacity to feed tens of millions of breakfast eaters daily. The plant also produces furfural from oat hulls, aiding Bakelite and resins, and has progressive worker benefits, contributing to the Army-Navy “E” victory effort.
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United States
Quaker Oats
Q O. Ordnance Corporation
Grand Island
Neb
Q O. Chemical Corporation
Memphis
Cedar Rapids
Robert Stuart
Chester S Johnson
Iowa
Denver
Atlantic
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Quaker Job
Anamosa
Quaker Oats CO
the Builders’ Material, Inc
Their
Achievement
Limback
Third Street
ARMY
Bonds
Cedar - Rapids City
Lines, Inc
General Cereal
Akron
Ohio
Peterboro
Saskatoon
Canada
St Joseph
Memphis Town
London
Germany
Holland
Denmark
Chicago
Army-Navy
DR. Louis C. Kaiser Optometrist
Higley Bldg
Victory
U. S
L. H. Stubbs &C., Inc
General Insurance
O.R.C. Bldg
Sam
Skelly
Skelly Oil CO
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Williams & Hunting Co
First St. SW
The
Army Navy
Third Avenue SW
Fifth Avenue
Lowe
Farm Dairies
DIAL
American Medical Association Council On Foods
Concrete Materials & Construction CO
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