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Advertisement for Liberty Bonds celebrating the "Women Heros" of WWI, appeared in the Wooster Daily Republican in 1917

Wooster Electric Company Ad proclaiming, "Women must find time to help the nation," appeared in the Wooster Daily Republicanin 1917

Portrait of Mrs. R.J. Smith, who coordinated the effort to create "comfort bags" for departing soldiers, circa 1918 

Portrait of Mrs. Sweeney, Superintendent of the Surgical Dressings Department of the Red Cross in Red Cross uniform, circa 1918 

1917 Wooster Daily Republican article decribing how Mabel Corbould, of the Ohio Experiment Station, has found ways of cooking bread with substitute flour for wartime conservation

1917 cartoon which appeared in the Wooster Daily News. Depicts "Uncle Sam" explaining that "meatless days" in the United States prevent "eatless days" for the European Allies

1917 Wooster Daily Republican article entitled, "Station Helps in Food Crisis," decribing the Ohio Experiment Station's efforts to ameliorate the food shortage of WWI

Wooster Daily RepublicanArticle, "Wooater Boys in Region of New Drive," dated September 9, 1918, announcing Copmany D's participation in the capture of Verdun

Wooster Daily Republican Article, dated August 15, 1917, describing the farewell ceremony held in honor of Wooster's first volunteer company to depart for service in WWI

Portrait of Captain Fred Redick in officer's uniform, circa 1918

Portrait of Colonel Frank C. Gerlach in officer's uniform, circa 1918

Certificate acknowledging that Captain Fred Redick was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroic actions at Montfaucon, dated March 5, 1919.

Captain Redick Leads Company D, 146th Infantry down High St. in Columbus, Ohio upon their return from France in 1919

1918 photograph of Colonel Houston Snyder, a Creston man who was killed in action during WWI

Photograph Rubbermaid's headquarters and plastics department in Wooster, circa 1969

1942 Wartime Production Board poster proclaiming "America needs your scrap rubber" and describing what military products that rubber is used to produce

The Wooster Rubber Company building at its original location on East Bowman Street, circa 1937

"Everything Rubbermaid" sign changes to "Everything Newell-Rubbermaid," photograph appeared in the Daily Record June 20, 2000

Photoraph of James and Madeleine Caldwell's 1933 patent for the colored rubber dustpan

1920 Daily Record announcement of Wooster Rubber Company's incorporation

Stanley Gault and other Rubbermaid executives pose with a poster depicting sales growth and emblazoned with the words, "The Billion Dollar Team 1987," appeared in the Daily Record on February 4, 1988

1950 Rubbermaid advertisement with the slogan "to lighten & brighten your housework"

1968 Rubbermaid advertisement depicting a women scooping flour from a "space-saving cannister"

The home of Emeline Stibbs on E. Bowman Street (now part of the Wayne County Historical Society) acted as a meeting place for women of the Soldiers Aid Society during the war.

Wooster’s Christmas Run Park has links to Prohibition. The city originally paid for the land on which the park is built with fines collected from violators of the prohibition laws.

After Prohibition, beer is once again brewed at the JAFB Wooster Brewery, opened in 2012. The brewery is located at 120 Beall Ave. in the building that used to house Gertsenslager's Co.

Herman Freedlander: This man was the proprietor of the immensely important Freedlander’s department store.

Charles E. Thorne: This man was the first director of the OARDC.

Howard Lowry: The College of Wooster president responsible for adding the requirement of Independent Study to the curriculum.

Edmund Secrest: Known as “the father of forest conservation in Ohio,” this man was made director of the OARDC in 1937. The beautiful Secrest Arboretum on the OARDC campus is named after him.