{"id":1060,"date":"2022-03-15T09:58:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/TinyTuesdays\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2022-07-23T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T14:02:47","slug":"pearl-button-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/2022\/03\/15\/pearl-button-of-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl (button) of wisdom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This cream-colored piece of cardboard has a delicate floral motif in orange and green, with a black 1930s stylized heading of \u201cMermaid Pearls.\u201d Secured to the card are five dainty mother-of-pearl buttons, with space for a missing sixth button.<\/p>\n<p>Mermaid Pearls was a brand manufactured by Hawkeye Button Company in Muscatine, Iowa, which was considered the \u201cpearl button Capital of the World\u201d; the company was founded in 1903 and was one of the largest button manufacturers in the US.<\/p>\n<p>These buttons were retailed by R.A. McWhirr Company, one of Fall River\u2019s leading department stores. According to the original price sticker on the backside of the card, one could buy a set of lovely pearl buttons for 15 cents, not a bad deal!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/275911920_5474155315946822_6467219702140979222_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1062\" src=\"https:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/275911920_5474155315946822_6467219702140979222_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/275911920_5474155315946822_6467219702140979222_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/275911920_5474155315946822_6467219702140979222_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/275911920_5474155315946822_6467219702140979222_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/275911920_5474155315946822_6467219702140979222_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/275911920_5474155315946822_6467219702140979222_n-1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/275911920_5474155315946822_6467219702140979222_n.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cream-colored piece of cardboard has a delicate floral motif in orange and green, with a black 1930s stylized heading of \u201cMermaid Pearls.\u201d Secured to the card are five dainty mother-of-pearl buttons, with space for a missing sixth button. Mermaid Pearls was a brand manufactured by Hawkeye Button Company in Muscatine, Iowa, which was considered&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"btnReadMore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/2022\/03\/15\/pearl-button-of-wisdom\/\">Read More <i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right i-spcr-l\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,93,27,4],"tags":[117,116,115],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advertisement","category-family","category-home-goods","category-vintage","tag-buttons","tag-fall-river","tag-mcwhirrs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/TinyTuesdays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}