Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suntanned girls of San Bernardino who hope and pray to be Queen of the Oranges, will not compete for Queen of the Lemons. But in East Texas last week a trim 17-year-old belle of Jacksonville did not hesitate to come forward and be crowned Queen of the Tomatoes. By proclamation of Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, last week was the first "National"' Tomato Week, sponsored by the East Texas and Jacksonville Chambers of Commerce, blessed by growers, shippers and canners in a dozen States...
...thousands people poured into Jacksonville (pop.: 7,000), "tomato capital of Texas," to see Queen Billye Sue Hackney crowned. A parade two miles long, with 25 floats, took one hour to pass through its streets. Trumpets blared across the baseball field, pages and ushers bowed and scraped as the Queen, escorted by the Royal Court of the Tomato, stepped up on a platform, and Jacksonville's Mayor Acker slipped a crown of jewels over her head. Jacksonville danced and drank far into the night at the Queen's Ball, and next day 5,000 farmers went...
...celebration was supposed to commemorate the centenary of the tomato as food, though no one knows for sure when New England farmers became brave enough to eat one. In the U. S. before 1800 witches were practically the only people who ate tomatoes, which everybody thought were poisonous. Indians in Mexico were found munching them as early as the 16th Century. The French prescribed them as a highly effective love potion. Thomas Jefferson had some on his Virginia farm in 1781, dared to use them in sauces and soups. But a woman born in Trenton, N. J. as late...
...cases of whole tomatoes, paste, pulp, sauce and juice were produced in U. S. canneries, to say nothing of the countless millions of fresh tomatoes which grocers sold each day. Canning alone was a $33,000,000 industry. As a tomato State Texas is surpassed by 20 others (biggest canners: Maryland, Indiana,California...
More newsworthy than the canning of whole tomatoes, which was a full grown industry by 1911, is tomato juice and the tomato cocktail which, in five short years, has tickled the nation's palate and pocketbook with ever mounting success. Before 1928 tomato juice was used chiefly for invalids and babies who needed its vitamins. Packers did not produce enough to warrant keeping separate figures. The first recorded figure was 165,251 cases in 1929. In 1930 production soared to 1,316.299 cases. Last year as tomato juice took its place on nearly every restaurant menu in the land...