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Title: Cranberries : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio5153port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
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Upper, UN children and parents ride Edaville railway and see cranberry harvest in operation; Lower, Plymouth Art Centre float, second price winner in Plymouth Parade. (CRANBERRIES Photo) the trip from New York to Providence, where they were met by private autos. Some were accompanied by their mothers or other older people. The group was directly in charge of Robert Knox, public relations officer of the Insti-tute. Arriving Thursday they were guests of area families, these including Mr. and Mrs. Russell Makepeace, Marion; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Morse, West Wareham; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hammond, East Wareham; Mr. and Mrs. Homer Gibbs, West Wareham; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Garside, Duxbury; Mr. and Mrs. Ferris Waite, Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Keyserling, Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Costello, South Carver; Miss Ellen Stillman, Hanson. Ei«rht Opening gun was the parade at Plymouth scheduled for 10:30 but late in getting underway. Leading was Brigadier-General Andrew J. Carr of Plymouth. The Abington High School band followed, then Plymouth High School, Plymouth Junior High and Paragon Park. There were clowns and kids dressed in "horrifying" costumes, the queen contestants and then-queen Bev- erly Richards wore in open cars. Floats from Town of Plymouth, Town of Kingston, Edaville Rail- way, which had locomotive No. 3 on a truck, tooting at intervals as it went along, winning first pa- rade pri-e money of S150; Na- tional Cranberry Association, a house made entirely of cans of cranberry sauce; Plymouth Cord- age Company, a sign stating "two industries were deep in the heart of the community," the making of rope since ancient times and of growing cranberries," Pilgrim Dis- trict Boy Scouts, Plymouth Ki- wanis Club, Plym'outh Rotary Club, and Rotary International which carried the UN children. Acco- mack Tribe Redmen, Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, Buttner Company, Cantoni Coal Company, Puritan Clothing Company, Ply- mouth Art Center, winner of sec- ond prize, 8100, consisting of girls representing the drama and arts and a big can of Ocean Spray sauce w!th people inside peeping out; De Lorenzo Tui-key Farm, representing a turkey yard, with live birds, winner of third prize.j S50. Parade judges were: Senator Stone, Rep. John Armstrong of ' aimth and Floyd Bell of Bos- ton. Biggest U. S. Cranberry Winner of the contest for the Irrge-t berry grown in the U. S. "â " ^'c'ded and announced by Dr. F. B. Chandler, East Warehanr f^ranberry Experiment Station. The award went to Mr. and Mrs. II. E. and Mary F. Maurer of Hau- TT, Oregon. The berry was a Mc- Farlin. Dr. Chandler announced it w-'s of 8.4 cubic centimeters, weig' ed 5.23 grams; 21 berries to the cup count as growers measure, end only S6-87 berries to make a pound. Most of the big fruit entered were McFarlins and other entrants were W. S. Jacobson, Grayland, Washington; W. R. Gottschalk, Wisconsin Rapids: Isaiah Haines, New Jersey; William Stillman, ' cituate Centre, Massachusetts and George R. Roberts, Alfred Maine, V. ith a vaiiety resembling an Early Black. Cranberry Dish Contest V/inners in a cranberry recipe contest held in the Tom Thumb Museum building at Edaville with 35 tempting edibles were: Mrs. John Gayoski, Rochester, first prize, S50, for a regal pie with chiffon type filling, glazed with cranberries; second, 525, a "bog ambrosia cake," baked by Mrs. Elwood Siscoe of East Bridge- water; third mrncy, ,$15. went to Mrs. Samuel K. Stewart, Brockton, a cranberry-cheese pie; Mrs. A. A. Norton, Kingston, cranberry-pine- applice spice cake; Mrs. Joseph T. Brown, Brockton, cranberry merin- gue pis, both won §5. Judges included three utility company home service directors. Miss Thelma Hunter, New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Co., Miss Janet Bolles, Brockton Edison Company and Mrs. Prudence How- ard, Cape and Vineyard Electric Company, Hyannis; also Miss Bea- trice White, Plymouth County Ex-

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