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NAME ORIGINS (continued): • A department store janitor suffering from asthma was the inventor of the first upright vacuum. James Spangler set out to improve on the carpet sweeper he used at work, hoping to alleviate his attacks. He started with a tin box, a fan, a broom handle and a pillowcase to suck away the dust. He gave one of his new “Electric Suction Sweepers” to his cousin, Susan Hoover, whose husband “Boss” Hoover provided the financial backing, eventually purchased the patent from Spangler and gave the contraption a new name. • It’s convenient that Arby’s sells roast beef (R-B), but that’s not the source of the company’s acronym. It really stands for the initials of its founders, the Raffel Brothers, Forrest and Leroy, who opened their first restaurant in Boardman, Ohio, in 1964. They had initially chosen the name Big Tex for their establishment, but another Ohio businessman was already using it. There are now more than 3,000 Arby’s across the United States. • Brothers Henry, Hilal, and Herman Hassenfeld were the founders of the world’s second-largest toymakers. Hasbro got its start in 1923 when these Polish immigrants started selling school supplies. In the late 1930s, they made the switch to toys, beginning with junior doctor and nurse kits and modeling clay. Today we know them for Mr. Potato Head, G.I. Joe and Transformers. • In 1927, a factory in Gothenburg, Sweden, rolled out its first automobile, christened the Volvo. The name came from the Latin, meaning, “I roll.” Eighty years later, the company had produced nearly 15 million vehicles. • Fiats have been around since 1899 when the Fabbrica Italiana Automobli Torino (translation: Italian Automobile Factory of Turin) was founded. The company built its first factory in the United States in 1908.

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MAP DIECTORY #1 Advanced Hair Technologies Page 3 1202 Dina Court www.advancedhairtechnologies.net Hiawatha, IA 52233 • 319-364-4220 #2 Pita’z Page 4 1057 North Center Point Road Hiawatha, IA 52233 • 319-395-7482 #3 The Spirit 89.5FM Page 4 1450 Boyson Road www.TheSpirit.org Hiawatha, IA 52233 • 319-294-8910 #4 Habitat for Humanity ReStore Page 4 725 North Center Point Road Hiawatha, IA 52233 • 319-294-1500 #5 Dairy Queen 100 North Center Point Road Hiawatha, IA 52233 • 319-393-0944 #6 The Spring House www.springhouserestaurant .net 3980 Center Point Road NE Coupons online Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 • 319-393-4995 #7 The Floor Shop Page 4 3909 Center Point Road NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 • 319-832-1937 #8 O’Donnell Ace Hardeware Page 4 3825 Center Point Road NE www.odonnellhardware.com Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 • 319-395-7770 #9 Star Gas Station 3323 Center Point Road NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 • 319-364-2815 #10 Cassill Motors Page 5 32nd & Center Point Road NE www.cassillmotors.com Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 • 319-363-3353 #11 Century Cab Page 12 1100 Center Point Road NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 • 319-365-0505 #12 Balloons, Etc. 720 Center Point Road NE www.crballoonsetc.com Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 • 319-298-9999 #13 Treasures / A Quality Resale Shop 701 Center Point Road NE www.aidtowomenministry.com Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 • 319-364-1988 #14 Metro Appliance Page 4 620 Center Point Road NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 • 319-366-7281 4

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Businesses Located Along Center Point Road

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• On May 9, 1926, according to their claims, polar explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole. The discovery in 1996 of the diary that Byrd had kept on his famous flight seemed to suggest that he and Bennett may have turned back 150 miles short of the pole because of an oil leak.

• On May 3, 1933, James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, is born. Brown did his first gospel singing while in prison, and he impressed the warden and the Georgia State Parole Board with his seriousness of purpose enough to win his release after only three years of an 8-to-16-year sentence.

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• On May 5, 1944, Bertha Benz, the wife of auto pioneer Karl Benz, dies in Germany. In 1888, Bertha drove an experimental three-wheel model on a surprise visit to her mother 65 miles away, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance. During the journey, she unclogged the car’s fuel line using one of her hairpins. She also used the garter on her stocking to fix a broken ignition.

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¥ On May 6, 1954, in Oxford, England, medical student Roger Bannister cracks track and field’s most notorious barrier: the four-minute mile. Bannister FILLER PAGE 2 won the mile race with a time of 3 FILLER PAGE 1 minutes, 59.4 4Q06 seconds.

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