Quaker History - period ended 8.15.2006

Quaker History/Women///WOMEN GAINING ground in the CLERGY/Greeley Tribune/Greeley/CO/USA/12-Aug-06/... The Society of Friends (Quakers) has always believed an existence of God's spirit in every human soul and have thus been ordaining women since the early 1800s. ...

Quaker History/Tolerance///'We the People' becomes reality for all in ASD/Allentown Morning Call/Allentown/PA/USA/13-Aug-06/... In response to William Penn's ''Holy Experiment,'' extolling the tolerance of the Society of Friends — Quakers from England — Germans came and settled the ...

Quaker History/Simplicity/Hairdressing//Men cast as an afterthought/The Sunday Times/London/England/UK/12-Aug-06/... With her grey hair pulled into a Quaker-style bun and her lack of personal vanity she seems the archetypal wise woman, but photographs of her in her prime ...

Quaker History/Simplicity///David Bear: What makes a great vacation?/Pittsburgh Post Gazette/Pittsburgh/PA/USA/12-Aug-06/... Chesapeake. Its elegant, exposed post and beam construction reflected the Quaker simplicities of the four bedroom, 25-year-old home. ...

Quaker History/Politics and Economics/Magie, Elizabeth/Cómo hacer una fortuna/Portafolio/Bogota/Colombia/South America/4-Aug-06/…El 'juego del capitalismo' nació en tiempos de crisis

El origen del Monopolio se remonta a 1904, cuando Elizabeth Magie patentó The landlord's game. En 1922 la patente expiró y el juego se volvió popular en Atlantic City, entre la comunidad cuáquera. (Los Quakers eran los seguidores de la secta Religios Society of Friends). Para esa época ya era 1933 y se vivía la depresión económica, luego de la crisis del 29, en Estados Unidos. Entonces, al ingeniero de sistemas de calefacción Charles Barrow, que estaba desempleado, en Germatown, Pennsilvania, se le ocurrió crear un juego llamado Monopoly, a partir del anterior. Él mismo se encargó de comercializarlo ante el desinterés de las compañías a las que lo ofreció y así logró vender cinco mil unidades. … The origin of Monopoly goes back to 1904, when Elizabeth Magie patented The landlord's game. In 1922 the patent expired and the game became popular in Atlantic City, in the Quaker community. (The Quakers, or Friends, were the followers of the sect, or Religious Society). For that time already he was 1933 and the economic depression was lived, after crisis of the 29, in the United States. Then, to the systems engineer of heating Charles Barrow, who was unemployed, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, it was happened to him to create a called game Monopoly, from the previous one. He himself was in charge to commercialize it before the disinterestedness of the companies to which he offered it and thus he managed to sell five thousand units. …. ……..

Quaker History/Meetinghouse//Roar of the greasepaint/Lancashire Evening Post/Lancaster/England/UK/10-Aug-06/... There has been a building on the site since the 1700s when a Quaker Meeting House was built. The current building, which makes up the present day auditorium, was constructed in 1847. ...

Quaker History/Marrying Out/Cooper, Ellen/Barclay Farmstead exhibit a tale of family's trials and .../Cherry Hill Courier Post/Cherry Hill/NJ/USA/9-Aug-06/... The historical record shows the Coopers, a Quaker family, were unhappy with their daughter's love interest because he was a Protestant, Ragonese said. ...

Quaker History/Lippincott, Caleb/Willetts, Robert/Humanitarian Assistance/Rehab preserves history in Cherry Hill/Cherry Hill Courier Post/Cherry Hill/NJ/USA/7-Aug-06/... father, Charles Willits, gave to the township's historical commission, Willowdale Farm first came into the family when Caleb Lippincott, a Quaker, bought it in ...

Quaker History/Land Ownership/Bethpage Purchase/Native Americans/Court victory for Melville land owners/Newsday/Long Island/NY/USA/8-Aug-06/... lots on the land -- later reduced to about 116 acres -- from the original "Bethpage Purchase" transaction between Indian tribes and a Quaker farmer 300 years ...

Quaker History/Intentional Community/Hill, Sam//'Maryhill Double' shimmers, mirage-like, in gorge/OregonLive.com/Portland/OR/USA/6-Aug-06/... below on Miller Island just downstream, Seattle entrepreneur Sam Hill built the museum in 1914 as the centerpiece of a utopian Quaker agricultural community he ...

Quaker History/Humanitarian Assistance/Natural Disaster/Hoover, Herbert/The long, strange resurrection of New Orleans/CNNMoney.com/Atlanta/GA/USA/10-Aug-06/... Even before the Greenville crevasse, six states had begged President Calvin Coolidge for help with earlier flooding. Coolidge, a true conservative, was reluctant to deal with what he considered a local matter. By April he had already rebuffed weeks of appeals. But when the governor of Mississippi telegraphed the horrific news that tens of thousands were caught by the Greenville crevasse, Coolidge realized the flood was too large for the states to handle. Within 36 hours of the break he gathered his cabinet and appointed Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover to direct the federal response.

Historians give Hoover mixed marks as a President, but none doubt his forcefulness. He was a Quaker engineer who came to prominence in World War I by organizing food shipments for millions of European refugees. Two hours after the cabinet meeting, he convened his commission and demanded that they find out what was going on. Then he boarded a special train and went to Mississippi. According to Barry, he spent 60 of the next 71 days in the flood zone.

Commandeering a boat, Hoover toured the region, firing off questions, insisting that red tape vanish, delegating, listening, organizing, setting policy. Farther downstream dozens of additional crevasses were expected (and occurred). Hoover wired warnings to local officials and demanded that they establish what he called "concentration camps." His orders came with exact plans for the camps, specifying every detail, from the size of sleeping platforms to the dimensions of latrines.

Critically, Hoover mobilized private industry. He persuaded railroads to give free passage to flood victims and to cut their rates on freight, and he selected powerful businesspeople to become "dictators" of local flood commissions. He set up tent cities and asked utilities and transportation companies to fill them with skilled workers for the rebuilding effort. . ...

Quaker History/Humanitarian Assistance/War/Hoover, Herbert/The Great Depression: How the Economic Crisis at Home Affected .../Voice of America/Washington/DC/USA/10-Aug-06/... Herbert Hoover's foreign policies were marked by his desire to make friends and avoid war.

Like most Americans, the new president had been shocked by World War One. Hoover had seen the results of that terrible war with his own eyes. He led the international effort to feed the many European civilian victims of the fighting. And the new president was a member of the Quaker religious group that traditionally opposes armed conflict.

Hoover shared the wish of most Americans that the world would never again fight a major war. He felt the bloody bodies at Verdun, the Marne, and the other battlefields of World War One showed that conflict should be settled by peaceful negotiations.

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Hoover worked toward this goal even before he entered the White House.

Following his election, he had several months free before becoming president. Hoover used this period to travel to Latin America for ten weeks. He wanted to show Latin American nations that they could trust the United States to honor their rights as independent nations.

Hoover kept his word. The year after he took office, his administration announced that it would recognize the governments of all Latin American countries, including governments that the United States did not like.

Hoover told the nation that he would not follow the Latin American policies of President Theodore Roosevelt. ...

Quaker History/Geneaology///When in doubt, leave none out/Norman Transcrip/Norman/OK/USA/13-Aug-06/... Warren County as early as 1806. James Spray came from South Carolina with other members of the Quaker Church.? This week I had an ...

Quaker History/Equality///Multicultural calendar/Norwich Bulletin/Norwich/CT/USA/15-Aug-06/... Born to a Quaker family on this date in 1803 in Rhode Island, this American schoolteacher sparked controversy in the 1830s with her efforts to educate black ...

Quaker History/Business/Public Schools/Hopkins, Johns/History of education uncovered bit by bit/Baltimore Sun/Baltimore/MD/USA/13-Aug-06/... the old Anne Arrundel Free School in Davidsonville, which Johns Hopkins attended before he quit to work in his family farm fields when his Quaker parents sold ...

Quaker History/Architecture/Plainfield Meeting/Sept. 10 home tour will highlight Plainfield's six historic .../Bridgewater Courier News/Bridgewater/NJ/USA/5-Aug-06/... Also included is the Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting House, which adjoins the seven block commercial North Avenue Historic District. ...

Quaker History/Architecture/Simplicity//Chadds Ford Historical Houses Open For Tours/Holmes Media Town Talk News/Media/PA/USA/9-Aug-06/... The house is a wonderful example of the Quaker design. There, visitors may view bread baking in the beehive oven in the cellar kitchen. ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Haines, Jonathan Ridgeway/View history at Carnation Festival tour/Canton Repository/Canton/OH/USA/13-Aug-06/... of Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant., and his son-in-law, Jonathan Ridgeway Haines, a Quaker and abolitionist. Some Haines House guests ...

Quaker History///A school of history/Palladium-Item/Richmond/IN/USA/15-Aug-06/... The exhibit, "Friends Among Us: 200 Years of Quaker Influence," can be found on the main floor of the Landrum Bolling Center in several showcases on the west ...

Quaker History///Herald news ... 100 years ago/Grand Traverse Herald/Traverse/MI/USA/9-Aug-06/..• Mr. Beason, wife and daughter of Indiana have arrived at Long Lake to spend the rest of the summer. Mr. Beason will preach at the Friends church every Sunday as long as he stays. ...