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National Plant, Flower And Fruit Guild
The National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild was a charity in the United States, started by 1895. It may have been associated with the Women's club movement. Its original goals were "to collect flowers, fruits and vegetables, and to distribute them to the needy, to place window boxes in unfortunate sections of one's community; and to start the children and grown people with an interest in the soil." Adeline Palmier Wagoner (1868 – 1929) was president of the St. Louis, Missouri branch. Louise Klein Miller was a national vice-president of the guild. It had a magazine, the National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild Magazine, which was published in New York City and in 1917 cost 25 cents a year for its four quarterly issues. In West Chicago, a garden club for many years collected flowers from gardens and "distributed bouquets to the poor and the ill", in conjunction with the Chicago Plant Flower and Fruit Guild. References External links *See {{cite web, url=https://www.nytimes.com/18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Club Movement
The woman's club movement was a social movement that took place throughout the United States that established the idea that women had a moral duty and responsibility to transform public policy. While women's organizations had always been a part of United States history, it was not until the Progressive era that it came to be considered a movement. The first wave of the club movement during the progressive era was started by white, middle-class, Protestant women, and a second phase was led by African-American women. These clubs, most of which had started out as social and literary gatherings, eventually became a source of reform for various issues in the U.S. Both African-American and white women's clubs were involved with issues surrounding education, temperance, child labor, juvenile justice, legal reform, environmental protection, library creation and more. Women's clubs helped start many initiatives such as kindergartens and juvenile court systems. Later, women's clubs tackle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Palmier Wagoner
Adeline Palmier Wagoner (February 14, 1868 – April 21, 1929) was an American volunteer organizational leader and author. She served as president of the St. Louis, Missouri, branch of the National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild, a charity for the poor and afflicted, and as president of the Shakespeare Tercentenary Society. Early life Adeline Palmier Myers was born on February 1, 1868, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the daughter of Frederick Myers and Louisa Palmier (b. 1837). Myers's mother wrote the words for ''Let Us Sing of Old Missouri'', music by Johanna Mohr, arranged by Esther M. Harkins. Myers had one sister who married Walter Dray, of Chicago. Wagoner's mother was the daughter of Michel Beaulier Palmier (1800–1851), granddaughter of Jean Beaulieu (dit Palmier), a captain of the War of 1812, and great-granddaughter of Michel Joseph Beaulieu, captain of the first regularly organized militia of Illinois, and Angelique Chauvin, daughter of a French officer of Fort de C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Klein Miller
Louise Klein Miller (August 7, 1854 – October 24, 1943) was an American landscape architect, educator, and curator of school gardens for the Cleveland public school system. Early life and education Miller was born on a farm near Dayton, Ohio and raised in Miamisburg, Ohio,Logan, Mrs. John A. The Part Taken by Women in American History' (Perry-Nalle Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912): 716-717. the daughter of William Miller and Ann Cline Miller. After teaching for years in Dayton, she graduated from Cook County Normal School in 1893. Influenced by Francis Wayland Parker and Wilbur S. Jackman, she pursued further studies as one of the first women students of the Cornell University State College of Forestry. Career Miller taught school in Dayton as a young woman. She taught at the Lowthorpe School of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening for Women in Massachusetts, and designed the Lowthorpe Garden. In 1904, she became head of the Cleveland Board of Education's Depa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital media, digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as ''The Daily (podcast), The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones (publisher), George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked List of newspapers by circulation, 18th in the world by circulation and List of newspapers in the United States, 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is Public company, publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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