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Today is Monday, June 30, the 181st day of 2025. There are 184 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On June 30, 1934, Adolf Hitler ...
As the video explains, in 1945, Eastman Kodak Company noticed fogging on its X-ray film. The company began testing and discovered unusual radioactive contamination on the strawboard material used for ...
Alton Box Board Co. fueled local industry by producing strawboard and buying all nearby straw for its factory.
Dow Chemical Canada has stopped seeking buyers for its strawboard plant at Elie, Man., and will instead sell the plant’s press equipment to foreign buyers, the Manitoba Co-operator reports.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1. -- The animal meeting of the stockholders of the American Strawboard Company was held in the Iranqueting room of the Auditorium to-day, with President Barber in the Chair.
The area was once home to several industries, including the American Strawboard Company, Rupp & Son Bucket Factory, and Standard Canning Company. The Plum Prairie Neighborhood sign (left) and Reverend ...
$1 million Bath house captures '80s soap opera opulence, minus the lily pond. See inside. Story by Akron Beacon Journal • 1mo ...
This article was originally published with the title “Cutter for Strawboard, Hints for the Handy Man, and more” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 104 No. 1 (January 1911), p. 14 doi:10.1038 ...
Where had the radioactive strawboard come from? Dr. Robley D. Evans of M.I.T. offered additional clues. It was made, he said, of straw cut in Illinois on Aug. 6, just 21 days after the explosion ...
The story of the Quincy Museum begins with a passion for history and a respect for the past. In 1962, Dr. James Reed, a local Quincy dentist interested in archaeology, ...
Eighteen homes that sold for $500,000 or more led home sales for Greater Akron the week of June 10, including one in Bath with its own horse barn.
Last fall Eastman discovered that some of its photographic film had been fogged by mysterious radioactive particles in strawboard packaging. It shifted to a new source of strawboard 500 miles from ...