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The New Silk Industry at the Horticultural Hall Exhibition
The Silk Culture Association awards nine premium prizes totaling 500 dollars for best silk cocoons produced in 1883. Miss E. B. Woolston wins 100 dollars for 160 cocoons yielding 1.21 ounces reeled silk. Rienza & Mantz of San Jose and several others receive 75 to 10 dollars for cocoons from California to Indiana. A foreign steam reel is introduced to boost reeled silk production and support a national silk industry via Strawbridge & Clothier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarkson Clothier
Strawbridge & Hothier
Wilk Culturists
United States
Women’s Silk Culture Association
California
Strawbridie & Clothier
EB Woolston
Pemberton
N. J
Messrs. Rienza & Mantz
San Jose
Cal
A. H. Williams
Riverton
Anna M. Mantz
Clara
Lewis
Virgil City
George Derr
Germantown
City
W. Hayes
Chester
Angustina
Philadelphia
Anna Husted
Liberty
Ind
Osage
M.B. Lowery
Portamouth
Ohio