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...first enrolled pupil of the California School of Fine Arts. In 1883, when he had served as the school's assistant director for two years, he married a pupil, Angela Ghirardelli, daughter of famed Chocolate Manufacturer Domingo Ghirardelli, producer of what is still California's best-selling cocoa, and never had to work for a living again. After studying painting in Italy for two years, the Jorgensens moved to Yosemite Valley, built and furnished a home and studio entirely with their own hands, lived there for eleven years while bearded Chris Jorgensen, a capable, conservative, never exciting painter...
...plainer boom portent has been seen than the recent upward surge in prices, Moody's commodity index having risen 20% in the past six months. Wheat at $1.25 per bu. last week was at a six-year high, cocoa at 11¼? per Ib. at a seven-year high, rubber at 19? per Ib. at a seven-year-high...
...name, members being the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce and the Attorney General. Its purview was broadened from grains, sorghums and flax to include rice, mill feeds, butter, eggs, potatoes and, more important, cotton. But entirely ignored by the Act were such commodities as coffee, sugar, cocoa, rubber, silk, tin, hides...
When Harriette left her father she ran off with young Lord Craven to Brighton. A dull, contented young man, Craven was interested only in his experiments with cocoa trees and with his military instructions, constantly expounded both to amuse his young mistress. "It was, in fact," she recalled later, "a dead bore." She did not deceive Craven, although she often thought of it. "How, indeed, could I do otherwise, when the Honorable Frederick Lamb was my constant visitor, and talked to me of nothing else?" The Honorable Frederick was Craven's closest friend. "I firmly believe," Harriette wrote, "that...
...Alderson scrabbled in the shops of Hempstead, L. I. for cheap vegetables such as beets, carrots, potatoes. Twice a week the family also ate cheap meat, low grade eggs. A can of pears was a treat for dessert. Supper consisted of sandwiches with cocoa, tea or milk. Last week Methodist Alderson reported the five had not lost weight, had suffered no ailments worse than colds...