Word: berta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Edgar Winfred Stark of Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co., Louisiana. Mo.,* flourished the papers which gave him the first patent in the world on a fruit tree. It covers his Hal-Berta giant peach tree. The Hal-Berta, President Stark excitedly sets forth, "bears uniformly large, rosy-cheeked, delicious to eat, yellow-fleshed, freestone peaches, many of them weighing more than a pound, ripening a few days after the Hale-Elberta [peach] season when a truly high quality peach such as the Hal-Berta Giant will mean profit to the man who grows them and pleasure...
...They took the car and shotguns. When this car bogged down, the convicts became frenzied. They confiscated another passing car, commandeered two young women for shields. Warden White protested. They blew his arm almost off, left him for dead. Then they split up into two groups. One group- Charles Berta, Stanley Brown, Tom Underwood-ran into the woods where they were soon captured...
...human characters, tragic situations. The two daughters of a grim old grandee fall in love with the same man; he seduces the older before he marries the younger, and his two children grow up to fill his house with hate. Don Juan, lover of the childless widow Raquel, marries Berta to become a father, becomes instead the jealously guarded child of both women. A self-made man marries the daughter of an impoverished business acquaintance; she eventually falls in love with him, he will never admit that he loves her. But when she dies, he kills himself...