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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...
Former President Apple Butter Club of St. Joseph St. Joseph...
...Philadelphia in 1787, St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church-standing today as the oldest church of the denomination in the U. S.-requested its handful of Negro members to segregate themselves at worship. Led by a prosperous teamster named Richard Allen and his friend Absalom Jones, the Negroes indignantly left the congregation, forthwith founded a benevolent organization called the Free African Society. From this group, first which U. S. Negroes formed to aid themselves socially and economically, stem all U. S. Methodist and Episcopal Negro churches. The majority of the Free Africans voted in 1791 to build an Episcopal...
From his farm near Ambler, Pa., Henry Lee Willet drives every day into West Philadelphia where he has a big, three-story studio and about 20 craftsmen working full-time on jobs which at the moment include windows for Minneapolis, St. Louis and Louisville. He pays apprentices $12 a week, experienced artists as much as $85, mechanics according to the union scale, which is $1 per hr. in Philadelphia. Like Lawrence Saint, he is a Presbyterian elder, recently persuaded the Presbytery of Philadelphia North to establish a committee of social action. He and Saint are good friends but he thinks...
...value of John Steinbeck first editions, bibliophiles must turn to the classic rise in the price of calves' liver, once given away in most butcher shops, currently selling at 85? a Ib. Distributed free to Publisher Covici-Friede's friends last Christmas, Author Steinbeck's St. Katy the Virgin, a short story, is now quoted at $10. Published last fortnight in an edition limited to 699 autographed, de luxe copies, Novelist Steinbeck's latest work, The Red Pony, was quoted at $10 a copy, and no man knew where it would go from there...