Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built a fence. Over it they have laid a tarpaulin. Why this has been done no Ford employe knows for sure, but most could hazard a sound guess: the furrow is to be preserved for posterity to look at; it will be included in the intriguing mass of Ford memorabilia which includes Luther Burbank's shovel (thrust into a block of concrete), a reproduction of the hole in the ground in Menlo Park, N. J., where Thomas A. Edison and his helpers threw their laboratory junk...
Considering that Governor Lloyd Stark of Missouri is part owner of one of the world's greatest apple orchards, located, of course, in Missouri; considering that Missouri is the nation's foremost producer of apple butter; and considering that all true . . . collectors of apple butter memorabilia genuflect to Missouri apple butter's superior flavor; I herewith extend to the latter an invitation to join the newly-formed Apple Butter Devotees of America (Missouri charter). Governor Stark is to be invited to be honorary life president of the society, which organization will take precedence over all lesser groups...
...Week throughout the land last week with a series of "Early Birds Breakfasts" (8:15 a. m.). Local agents collected private and public bigwigs to tone up the breakfasts, put on broadcast after dull broadcast, dug up nonagenarian policyholders as living testimonials, prodded museums and universities to feature the memorabilia of insurance, inspired sermons on the "economic, moral and social values ,of life insurance to the individual and the nation," sponsored teas, dances, dinners, lectures, concerts, fashion shows...
...housing the medals, sombreros, plaster statuets and other memorabilia of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, whose Paris flight was financed by St. Louis citizens...
...Many memorabilia of "Honest Abe", as well as the axe, and of the Civil War period in general, are included in the historical exhibit. The objects range in size from the formidable ten pound woodchopper to an early photograph showing him in his young and beardless days. In the writings they vary from a terse notice announcing his return to private life to the twelve hundred pages of "Gone With the Wind," which was included for reasons which the reporter was unable to discover...