Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Florence Havemeyer, daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer (coal, copper, fruit) of Mahwah, New Jersey; to George F. Robinson, naval architect of Manhattan...
Samuel Insull, public utility tycoon, purchased Mellody Farm for $2,500,000, last week. Mellody Farm is not Tin Pan Alley.* Nor is it a chicken, dairy or fruit farm. It is the bit of land which Mrs. Jonathan Ogden Armour loved most in the world-her magnificent 845-acre estate near Lake Forest, Ill. It was sold to help pay the creditors of the late Mr. Armour, honest grain-man and meatpacker. Mr. Insull and his syndicate of 24 Chicagoans will divide it into smaller estates...
...Henry Ford, president of the Woman's National Farm and Garden Association, advised farmers' wives last week to build attractive roadside markets and sell produce to passing motorists. Speaking of a market of her own, she said: "The bright colors of the vegetables and fruit against the clean white background made it more easy to attract...
...would appreciate very much having a copy of said advertisement sent to me with all particulars so that I might order a few cases of the fruit juice. A number of Denver men are very desirous of ascertaining the supply house as well as the price per case, so would appreciate prompt and definite information...
Symbolic, indeed, is the giant pineapple, 64 feet high, made of steel, containing 100,000 gallons of water, which supplies the automatic sprinkler system of the largest fruit canning factory in the world- the James D. Dole's Hawaiian Pineapple Co. Mr. Dole is perhaps the richest resident of Hawaii and its most ardent publicist. Another famed Dole, the late Sanford Ballard (TIME, June 21, 1926), was responsible for stirring up the revolution which ousted Queen Liliuokalani, was the first and only President of Hawaii (1894-1900), was a leader in getting the U. S. to annex the islands...