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Best Breadmaker In Iowa Award, 1912, Goes To 11-Year-Old Girl

โ€œLois is such a little girl that she had to get on her knees on the stool in the cooking laboratory in order to knead her bread,โ€ an official from the college in Ames said. The spokesperson was describing how Lois Edmonds, an 11-year- old girl from Page County, became the best breadmaker in Iowa […]

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