Blue ribbon ribbon may given to the champion and second-place (or reserve) champion. Blue ribbon The blue ribbon is a symbol of high quality. The association comes from The Blue Riband, a prize awarded for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by passenger liners and, prior to that from Cordon Bleu, which referred to the blue ribbon worn by a particular order of knights. The spelling "blue riband" is still encountered in most English-speaking countries, but in the United States, the term was altered to "blue ribbon", and ribbons of this color came to be awarded for first place in certain
Clarissa C. Cook Library/Blue Ribbon News Building "Northwestern News". The paper flourished in the 1880s and it changed its name again in 1886 to the "Davenport Daily Times". In 1899 the Brady family sold the paper to A.W. Lee who published the "Ottumwa Courier" of Ottumwa, Iowa. This was the beginning of Lee Enterprises. Clarissa C. Cook Library/Blue Ribbon News Building Clarissa C. Cook Library/Blue Ribbon News Building was located at 528 Brady Street, Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was noted on the National Register of Historic Places in April, 1983 as Cook Memorial Library and listed in July 1983 under the "Clarissa C. Cook Library/Blue Ribbon