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In 1956, Joseph McVicker of Kutol Products in Cincinnati added a pleasant scent to his company’s clay wallpaper cleaner and rolled it out on the toy market as Play-Doh. Three new colors—red, yellow and blue—were added to the original grayish white the following year.

first appeared: 12/19/2004

"King of the Cowboys" Leonard Franklin Slye (1911-1998), born in Cincinnati, first appeared in movies in the 1930s under the name Dick Weston, but he is best-known as Roy Rogers.

first appeared: 12/5/2004

A slave pen recovered from a farm in Mason County, Ky., is among artifacts at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which opened in August in Cincinnati.

first appeared: 11/21/2004

You heard correctly that there is a Kenneth W. Berger Hearing Aid Museum and Archives at Kent State University in Kent (pop. 27,906) with 3,000 different hearing aid models.

first appeared: 11/7/2004

Six of the 659 winners, from 1981 to 2003, of the coveted "genius awards," the MacArthur Fellowships, are graduates of Oberlin College in Oberlin (pop. 8,195).

first appeared: 10/24/2004

Merle Robbins invented UNO in 1971 and sold the card game in his Reading (pop. 11,292) barbershop.

first appeared: 10/10/2004

In 1816, Benjamin Fitch began making splint-bottom chairs in Bedford (pop. 14,214) and today his Taylor Chair Co. is the state’s oldest business operated by the same family.

first appeared: 10/3/2004

Suzanne Conrad of Findlay (pop. 38,967) won $1 million for her Oats ’n Honey Granola Pie recipe in the 2004 Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest.

first appeared: 9/19/2004

The American Soya Festival in Amanda (pop. 707) honors soybeans by serving up soybean-based meals for four days each September.

first appeared: 9/12/2004

In 1862, Mary Jane Patterson became the first African-American woman to graduate from an American college when she received a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College in Oberlin (pop. 8,195).

first appeared: 9/5/2004

The public library in Lithopolis (pop. 600) was a gift from Mabel Wagnalls Jones to honor her parents, Adam and Anna Willis Wagnalls. Her father co-founded Funk and Wagnalls Publishing Co.

first appeared: 8/29/2004

Singer Dean Martin, who earned the nickname “the Beatles buster” after his 1964 hit Everybody Loves Somebody topped the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night, was born in 1917 in Steubenville (pop. 19,015) where he’s remembered with a festival each June.

first appeared: 8/22/2004

The state’s first reported highway fatality occurred Aug. 20, 1835, when librarian Christopher Baldwin lost control of his stagecoach on a curve near Norwich (pop. 113) along the old National Road.

first appeared: 8/15/2004

The boyhood home of former President Ulysses S. Grant, along with his father’s tannery, can be visited in Georgetown (pop. 3,691).

first appeared: 8/8/2004

Settlers named Rio Grande (pop. 915) after the river in 1846, but didn’t speak Spanish and rhymed it with Ohio, pronouncing it Rye-oh-grand.

first appeared: 8/1/2004

In 1914, Joseph Dager started Velvet Ice Cream Co. in Utica (pop. 2,130). Headquartered in an 1817 mill, the family business also includes an old-fashioned ice cream parlor and ice cream museum.

first appeared: 7/25/2004

Hamilton was designated “The City of Sculpture” in 2000, in part for the 265-acre Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, where 30 pieces of monumental art are on display.

first appeared: 7/18/2004

Dr. Albert Sabin, who joined Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in 1939, developed the live-virus oral polio vaccine in the 1950s and is credited with saving thousands of lives.

first appeared: 7/11/2004

Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Spielberg, born in 1946 in Cincinnati, has scored hits with films in varied genres, including science fiction’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and history’s Schindler’s List.

first appeared: 6/27/2004

With $100 in 1906, Harry Gerstner founded his tool chest company, H. Gerstner & Sons Inc., in Dayton. Family members continue making the quality wooden tool chests nearly a century later.

first appeared: 6/20/2004

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