The original operator of the plant was a company called "Day and
Zimmerman" - a contraction of that company's name became the station name.
N. L. Pitsch
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From: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:37 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Dayman?
> And the thoroughly useless trivia question of the month -
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> When the US Army built its ammunition plant just east of Middletown, Iowa,
in the early 1940s, the CB&Q put a station sign next to the wye which served
it, and named the (non-)place "Dayman".
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> Why "Dayman"? I assume it's someone's name, but was it the Army contract
officer? The surveyor who laid out the wye? Some Chicago executive's
wife's maiden name?????
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> Absolutely no one but me wants to know, and it's for no good reason . . .
but please, somebody -
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> Tell me anyway!
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> Marshall Thayer
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