Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your apple butter amateurs, their correspondence, and their butter perpetuation societies, beg to advise that these fellows are 19 years late getting started. Back in 1918 in St. Joseph, Mo., then and now, apple butter capital of America, a group of Jackson Grammar School boys formed an organization known as the Apple Butter Club, membership being confined exclusively to boys and girls who liked apple butter and who helped their mothers make it. Meetings were held twice monthly and refreshments consisted of apple butter, crackers and apples. Activities consisted of refreshments mostly and voting in new members whose initiation...
...mighty fine o' yer ter let yer readers know about our "Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Fer The Purpose Of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpetuatin Memories Of Apple Butter Stirrin Days." And th' former apple butter stirrers thet's rote in 're mighty grateful...
Some o' 'em 're still stirrin apple butter. But most o' us ain't done no stirrin since Aunt Tillie cought Uncle Jake sneakin in fer a second look at Little Egypt at th' Chicago World's Fair BSR (Before Sally Rand...
Course nearly all o' us wood trade our false teeth an hot water bottles fer some o' th' good old apple butter agin. An if yer kin find some feller thet'll guarantee ter make as good apple butter as we use ter stir, all he's got ter do is tell us about it in TIME (an he woodn't need a big ad), and his fortune's made. Fer most all o' us wood be reglar customers...
Yers fer better apple butter an less apple sauce...