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Can you identify this mystery item?
The two wire tips can fold into the handle.  Is this a rug hook?

Ken Anderson says, That's not a rug hook on your mystery page.  That's a tool to help with buttoning a shirt, etc.  They're used by people with dexterity problems such as with arthritis.  Or to help with those darn hard to reach buttons.

Can you identify this mystery item found in our inventory?
It is steel and measures about 2 inches.
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Duane Black says, That object was used in the early years before hybrid seed corn.  Farmers would select the nicest ears at  harvest and save them for seed the following year. There were several ways to hang them up to dry. This object was one of them. You just push the jagged edge into the end of the ear of corn and then you would have a hook to hang it up to dry. simple, huh!!

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Do you know the identity of these St. Cecilia students with their rod puppets.
These photos are from November of 1951.

Thanks to John Hagge and Bill McGowan for their
response to our request for names of these St. Cecilia students.

Above photo, from left: Barb Wilcox, ???, Jean Hensing,
either Jacque Porrier or Danny Wazniak, Joann Mackelbust, ???, ???

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From left: Joanne Daniels, Joyce Herrick, Bill Davey, John Hagge,
Caroline Brandt, Mary Jane Walsh
In background at right: perhaps Bonnie Hoover or Mary Alice White

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Thanks to Terry Bird for these identifications:

Back row from left: ???, Tom Lyttle, ???, Harold Green, Eldon Hand
Middle row: ???, four Iowa Highway Patrolmen, ???
Front row: Ray Truesdale, O.J. Erickson, Arlie Schumer, Harold Olson, Cliff Bates

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