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February 29, 1860. Des Moines, Iowa. Died. after 1940. Education. Drake University. Occupation (s) Teacher, orchard farmer, founder of International Congress of Farm Women. Belle van Dorn Harbert (February 29, 1860 – after 1940) was an America educator and the president of the International Congress of Farm Women.
The kolkhoznitsa melon was first bred by a Russian gardener in the 1930s, specifically for cool, shorter seasons. It then spread to other European countries such as Ukraine, eventually making its way to the United States. [2] The rind is thin and golden-orange in color and the interior flesh is white and dense.
Violet Clara McNaughton (born Violet Clara Jackson; November 11, 1879 – February 3, 1968) was a Canadian journalist and agrarian feminist notable for co-establishing The Western Producer and contributing to its "Mainly for Women" pages from 1925 until her retirement in 1950. A settler and farmer of Harris, Saskatchewan (land of the Plains ...
Updated September 20, 2019 at 3:43 PM. Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. The ...
The Women's Land Army ( WLA) was a British civilian organisation created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women into work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLA were commonly known as Land Girls ( Land Lassies ). [1] The Land Army placed women with farms that ...
Margaret Gunn. Susan Margaret Rogers Gunn (1889 - December 1989) was a Canadian activist. Gunn was the third president of the United Farm Women of Alberta (UFWA), following the presidencies of Irene Parlby (1916-1920) and Marion Sears (1920–24), and served in that role from 1924 to 1929. [1] [2] [3] She was a noted "country life advocate" [4 ...
There was nothing written nowadays worth reading. The book on her knee was called Cold Comfort Farm and had been written by a young woman who was said to be very clever and had won an important literary prize. But she couldn't get on with it at all. It was about life on a farm, but the girl obviously knew nothing about country life.
Hall lived with her brother, Albert R. Hall for many years on a farm near Knapp, Wisconsin, and inherited it on his death in 1905. Failing health caused her to move to an apartment in Minneapolis . On October 11, 1918, she was involved in an automobile accident near French Lick, Indiana , from which she never recovered, and she died at the age ...