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  • Thumbnail for Mason jar
    A Mason jar, also known as a canning jar, preserves jar or fruit jar, is a glass jar used in home canning to preserve food. It was named after American...
    20 KB (2,508 words) - 10:52, 22 June 2024
  • Fruit Jar Guzzlers was an old-time music group who recorded during the 1920s. Fruit Jar Guzzlers is one of the most mysterious old-time groups to ever...
    3 KB (306 words) - 01:33, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uncle Dave Macon
    early 1927, Macon formed the Fruit Jar Drinkers, composed of Macon, Sam McGee, Kirk McGee and Mazy Todd. The Fruit Jar Drinkers recorded for the first...
    18 KB (2,092 words) - 05:20, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Landis Mason
    patentee of the metal screw-on lid for antique fruit jars commonly known as Mason jars. Many such jars were printed with the line "Mason's Patent Nov...
    3 KB (382 words) - 10:49, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fruit preserves
    Fruit preserves are preparations of fruits whose main preserving agent is sugar and sometimes acid, often stored in glass jars and used as a condiment...
    34 KB (3,928 words) - 13:56, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ball Corporation
    Mason Improved fruit jar patent was due to expire, their company began manufacturing canning jars in their glassworks. The Ball Brothers' jars, which were...
    35 KB (3,822 words) - 21:56, 4 July 2024
  • Anecdote of the Jar  I placed a jar in Tennessee,  And round it was, upon a hill.  It made the slovenly wilderness  Surround that hill.  The wilderness...
    8 KB (973 words) - 14:40, 19 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Container glass
    bottle Sealed bottles Wine bottles Jars Antique fruit jar Killing jar Kilner jar Leyden jar Mason jar Fowler's jar Drinkware Bowls Pitchers Vases Laboratory...
    2 KB (220 words) - 19:01, 5 December 2023
  • The Muncie Fruit Jars were a professional minor league baseball team based in Muncie, Indiana. The club was first formed in 1906 as a team in the class-C...
    2 KB (169 words) - 04:57, 31 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Grand Ole Opry
    days included Bill Monroe, the Possum Hunters (with Humphrey Bate), the Fruit Jar Drinkers with Uncle Dave Macon, the Crook Brothers, the Binkley Brothers'...
    57 KB (6,379 words) - 14:41, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hazel-Atlas Glass Company
    "inserts" used in zinc fruit-jar lids, many types of milkglass cold-cream jars and salve containers, and a large variety of bottles and jars for the commercial...
    4 KB (380 words) - 20:14, 3 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Twelfth Night
    played Malvolio, Kara Tointon Olivia, and Dinita Gohil Viola. In 2022, Old Fruit Jar Productions staged a 1980s-inspired twist on the play at Royal Court Theatre...
    53 KB (6,420 words) - 16:31, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sea glass
    ice- or soft blue (from soda bottles, medicine bottles, ink bottles, and fruit jars from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, windows, and windshields)...
    9 KB (1,003 words) - 21:48, 14 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dried fruit
    Dried fruit is fruit from which the majority of the original water content has been removed either naturally, through sun drying, or through the use of...
    25 KB (3,138 words) - 10:38, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fruit butter
    while fruit butters usually come in wide-mouthed jars and are more common in Central and Eastern Europe. In order to make fruit butter, the fruit is cooked...
    3 KB (281 words) - 19:42, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bell jar
    A bell jar is a glass jar, similar in shape to a bell (i.e. in its best-known form it is open at the bottom, while its top and sides together are a single...
    12 KB (1,586 words) - 02:55, 30 May 2024
  • stems, or other debris into the jar. The maceration in alcohol will amplify any bad taste in the fruit, such as with fruit that started to rot, instead of...
    4 KB (485 words) - 22:30, 20 July 2023
  • Opry in 1926 and the following year joined Uncle Dave Macon's band, the Fruit Jar Drinkers. In the 1930s, the McGees teamed up with early Opry fiddler Arthur...
    10 KB (1,222 words) - 05:50, 7 July 2024
  • with the Ball Corporation, a long-running nickname for the school was "Fruit Jar Tech." During the regular legislative session of 1929, the General Assembly...
    75 KB (7,223 words) - 22:10, 23 June 2024
  • 1927, traditional country musician Uncle Dave Macon, with his group the Fruit Jar Drinkers, recorded "Sail Away Ladies" with a refrain of "Don't she rock...
    113 KB (14,145 words) - 19:26, 3 July 2024
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