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April 19, 2023
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Dorri PartainContributor Giddy-up! Young, aspiring buckaroos looked forward to the weekly trip to the grocery store to insert a coin and gallop away, for a few minutes at least. Whether…

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April 12, 2023
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Dorri PartainContributor Baby’s first shoes and first steps can be remembered and displayed using a process that will preserve them forever, while also creating a useful object. Preserving tiny shoes…

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April 5, 2023
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Dorri PartainContributor Which came first- the deviled egg or the deviled egg plate? The versatile egg has been boiled, sliced, diced, chopped and shredded since ancient times, but the popular…

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March 29, 2023
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Dorri PartainContributor Hey, shoppers! Save 15 cents off the price of the cereal that is “a glowing part of a good breakfast.”As developed by General Mills, “ET” cereal was a…

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March 22, 2023
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Decades prior to being officially renamed by the City Council, a two block section of 11th Street had earned the nickname, “Petticoat Lane.” As 11th Street heads east from Grand…

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March 15, 2023
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Dorri PartainContributor America’s largest cookie sale began with one Girl Scout troop in 1917. The “Mistletoe” troop of Muskogee, Okla., had a successful cookie sale as a service project, and…

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March 8, 2023
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Dorri PartainContributor For centuries, books, documents, and letters were written with a simple quill pen that was dipped into ink. The first advancement by John Mitchell in 1822 was to…

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March 1, 2023
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Dorri PartainContributor The development of flash photography was, quite literally, explosive. In order to get the lumens necessary for indoor portraits, early photographers achieved a bright flash of light by…

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February 22, 2023
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Dorri PartainContributor The handiest gadget in today’s kitchen drawer was invented several decades following the invention of canned foods. While the canning of food dates back to 1810, the first…

Dorri Partain
February 15, 2023
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Dorri PartainContributor Whether wearing sneakers, playing a guitar, or donning a superhero cape, the cartoon cats drawn by artist B Kliban adorned a wide variety of goods through the late…