Apples and ambitions on the Sanders farm
Gladys and her sister run an apple and cabbage farm while facing boyish advances and a bid by a rascally buyer to lock in low prices. Jeff Pearson plots bravely, while Gladys challenges class expectations and pressures a county apple market manipulator. The sisters defend their crop and plan to wait for a higher future price as they manage farm duties in mid 1900s rural life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeff
Gladys
Jeff Pearson
Harold
Mabel
Pearson
du Val
Lon
Carrie
Mrs. Sanders
Mr. Sanders
New York
Girls Read, Plow, and Battle Garden Intrigue
NE girls study Mr. Pearson's books on crops and Bordeaux mixtures while spring chores begin. They plow and harrow, spray the orchard, and amid work Harold and Beth arrive in a car prompting Mabel to hide in a barrel as Gladys mocks their arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold du Val
Mabel
Beth
Harry
Harold
Gladys
Ho An
Successful Co operation. Farmers' unity boosts markets
An illustration from Sparta Wisconsin shows how the Fruit Growers' Association, founded 1896 with 6000 capital, shipped 4000 strawberry cases at peak and earned 7 percent dividends. It operates its own boxes saving 800 to 900 dollars yearly and keeps 10 percent of sales until year end. Cooperation across granges and clubs is urged to secure best results.
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Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Granges
Iruit Growers’ Association of
Sparta
Wis
South Dakota
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Grange
Kansas Farmers Form Mutual Co operatives At Upland
In Upland Dickinson county Kansas three mutual companies operate as insurance, a telephone service, and a mercantile store. The Golden Rule company runs a profitable store and owns a grain elevator with stock valued at 150 per 100. The telephone system serves over 4,000 people with low ongoing fees and no capital stock.
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Upland
Dickinson County
Irixond
Mercantile Corporation
Golden Rule Company
Kansas
Gems From Diverse Denominations On Religion
Selected quotes from Rev G A Beecher Rev S S Wise Rev G J Conlan Rev G L Cady Rev R Stuart Rev S Hyde Rev J Sears Rev Charles Bayard Mitchell Rev Dr Arthur S Phelps Rev Dr St Clair Hester Rev Hugh T Kerr and Rev George B Foster highlighting faith humility joy and the universal reach of music and belief across Episcopal Hebrew Methodist Catholic Unitarian Baptist and New Thought traditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Bayard Mitchell
Methodist Episcopal
Chicago
Arthur S. Phelps
Baptist
Los Angeles
Cal
Jesus
Hugh T. Kerr
Presbyterian
Memory Day and its Rural Cemetery Work in Michigan
The Michigan legislature set September as Memory Day to beautify rural cemeteries. The law arose from the state grange and the State Association of Farmers' Clubs. The Grange committee on women's work leads the effort with subordinates in hundreds of granges, and results have been gratifying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
State Grange
State Association of Farmers’ Clubs
Keswick Grange Plans County Fruit Exhibit
At a Keswick grange meeting in Leelanau county Michigan the group discussed sending a fruit exhibit to the state grange and decided to prepare an exhibit that will reflect credit on the county and its Patrons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keswick Grange
Leelanau County
Mich
State Grange
Also Mentioned on This Page
By Clifford V. Gregory
Marold
Icebox
Goodby
the Grange
J. W. Darrow
Chatham, N. Y
New York State
G. A. Beecher
Episcopalian
Omaha
S. S. Wise
Hebrew
God
G. J. Conlan
Newark
N. J
G. L. Cady
Dorchester
Mass
Rev. R. Stuart
Unitarian
Detroit, Mich
R. S. Hyde
Methodist
New Thought
New Thought Church
J. S. Sears
New Thoughtist
St. Clair Hester
Brooklyn
George B. Foster
Parcels Post
Postal Savings Bank
United States
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