Chillicothe City Council approves ordinances and resolution
Chillicothe City Council approves ordinances for police facility, concrete repairs, and Southern Bank agreement. Learn about city updates.
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Chillicothe City Council approves ordinances for police facility, concrete repairs, and Southern Bank agreement. Learn about city updates.
While the bread slicer was invented in Iowa, it was a Chillicothe, Missouri baker who put it to use and first sold sliced bread.
Otto Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, created the invention by which all others are judged — sliced bread — in 1928. His innovation quickly changed consumer culture.
Whether sweet or savory, these Kansas City bakeries have something special to satiate everyone's taste buds.
Chillicothe, Missouri, has an unusual claim to fame: It’s the town where pre-sliced bread first debuted back in 1928. The state has even declared July 7, Sliced Bread Day, as an official holiday. But despite being less than a century old, the origin of this revolutionary pantry staple was almost lost to history.