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The 1939 ''Dubuque City Directory'' through 1948 ''Dubuque Classified Business Directory'' listed Maizewood Insulation Company at 275 Salina. | The 1939 ''Dubuque City Directory'' through 1948 ''Dubuque Classified Business Directory'' listed Maizewood Insulation Company at 275 Salina. | ||
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MAIZEWOOD INSULATION COMPANY. In 1929 the Development Bureau of the Illinois Central System reported that the plant of the Maizewood Products Corp. at Dubuque was producing and soon would be ready to run on capacity schedule. The company would employ between 100 and 115 men and would turn out 100,000 square feet of insulation board, MAIZEWOOD, a day from corn stalks. (1)
In 1930 eighteen carloads of cornstalks which otherwise would have been burned off in the field were shipped to Dubuque. The Department of Agricultural Engineering at Iowa State College (later Iowa State University) in Ames harvested and baled the stalks using machinery built by the engineering department. Farmers were paid $1.75 per ton. Freight on the stalks amounted to $2.56 per ton. On delivery to the plant, $10.00 was paid per ton. (2) The manufacturing plant was purchased in January 1930 by National Cornstalk Processes, Inc. (3)
In 1931 the business, which had been busy providing insulation board for the Chicago World's Fair, along with ten tons of cornstalks was destroyed by fire. (4) It was quickly rebuilt.
The 1934 Dubuque City Directory listed Maizewood Building Company at 9 LINCOLN BUILDING.
The 1939 Dubuque City Directory through 1948 Dubuque Classified Business Directory listed Maizewood Insulation Company at 275 Salina.
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1. "Insulation Board From Corn Stalks," Wall Street Journal, Jan. 3, 1929. Online: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/djreprints/doc/130610928.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jan%203,%201929&author=&pub=Wall%20Street%20Journal&edition=&startpage=&desc=INSULATION%20BOARD%20FROM%20CORN%20STALKS
2. "Ames Shipping Cornstalks Here," Telegraph Herald and Times Journal, Apr. 17, 1930, p. 17. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BLBFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Pb0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=3273,3425860&dq=maizewood+dubuque&hl=en
3. "Expansion Policy for Local Plant," Telegraph Herald and Times Journal, May 4, 1930, p. 19. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ELBFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Pb0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=6139,5744454&dq=maizewood+dubuque&hl=en
4. "Cornstalk Factory Destroyed by Fire," Milwaukee Journal, Dec. 8, 1931, p. 17. Online: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0LJQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OyIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3236,4482393&dq=maizewood+dubuque&hl=en
See: MAIZEWOOD