Quaker Oats Founded by Stuart in 1873
Robert Stuart, age 19 in 1873, built a Cedar Rapids oatmeal mill after selecting Cedar Rapids over several sites. With limited funds he purchased a warehouse, installed machinery, and produced 200 barrels daily, launching what would become the world’s largest cereal mill. The history began with the North Star Mill and continued beyond.
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Robert Stuart
Canada
United States
Clinton
Muscatine
Davenport
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Robert
Quaker Oats Company
Service Officers Set to Present Quaker Awards Tonight
Commanding officers of naval training at Cedar Falls and Chicago quartermaster depot leaders will present Army Navy E pennants to Quaker Oats Cedar Rapids workers and to defense staff. The ceremony features Lieut. Comdr Everett E. Pettee, a 1921 Naval Academy graduate, and Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Barzynski, depot commander with a long career in quartermaster service.
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Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Company
Navy
Naval Training Station For Waves
Cedar Falls
Everett E. Pettee
Universal Engineering Corporation
Pettee
United States Naval Academy
North Dakota
Goff and Humphries
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Memphis
Richmond
Charleston
S. C
Kanawha
University of Chicago
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
University of Minnesota
W. R. Midshipmen’s School
Northampton
Joseph E. Barzynski
E” Pennant
Major Gorczynski
Napoleon
Chicago
United States Military Academy
Infantry
United States
Philippines
Mexico
War Department General Staff
Quartermaster General
Motor Transport Division
St. Paul
Neb
L’ecole de l'Intendence
Paris
Command and General Staff School
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Gen Barzynski
John Barzynski
Wife Qualifies as Back Seat Driver
MAXWELL FIELD Alabama aviation cadet John L. Leslie of Narbeth Pennsylvania will log much air mileage. His wife Elvira Laine formerly Miss Laine has flown 1,500,000 miles in five years as a hostess for American Airlines. After the war she may add to this total as a backseat driver to her pilot husband.
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Maxwell Field
Ala
INS
John L. Leslie
Narbeth
Elvira Laine
American Airlines
War era Quaker Oats workers praise democracy and duty
Quaker Oats employees answer three prompts about America and war work, praising freedom, patriotism, and production efforts. The piece lists dozens of staff across departments from shipping to milling, each linking the E award to national defense, daily labor, and perseverance, with a final note directing continued coverage.
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Quaker Oats
America
Wes Hack
Shipping
Howard
Dale
Grain
C. Easterday
Howard B. Snyder
Jerry Prazil
Fek” Russell
Charles A. Porter
T. B. Trimble
W. E. McFann
Lee H. Poncin
Libbie Sopousek
Tony Balik
Army
Navy
Joseph A. Marsh
Wesley J. Kopecky
John E. Prostka
Edmond Archibald
Francis F. Bozanek
Carl A. Roas
Ed Dyson
Ion
Europe
Warry A. Covington
Milling
Edmund W. Tucker
Albert Zeman
Pearl Everett
Quaker Oats Company
Phyllis Baldwin
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United States Liquidation Commission
Warsaw
Lieut. Comdr. Pettee
Barzynski
Army-Navy
Laird Feed CO
Quaker Oats CO
O. F. Paulson Construction Company
Town Theater
W. T. Sands
Second St. NE
Roosevelt Hotel
Western Transportation Co
Fifth Street SE
Second Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids _ Pump and Supply Co
E. K. Larimer
Hardware Company
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