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A State Farm Insurance office occupies a classic railroad depot in Hiawassee, Georgia. State Farm is the largest property and casualty insurance provider, and the largest auto insurance provider, in the United States. [8]
Albuquerque's decline was attributed to the lack of railroad access [1] as well as the growth of nearby Union Valley, which was just two miles south of Albuquerque. [2] The Albuquerque Post Office closed for good in 1883, just 13 years after opening. The town itself was completely abandoned by 1912, [2] and is today a Texas ghost town.
George Jacob "G.J." Mecherle [1] (pronounced "Ma-herl") (June 7, 1877 - March 10, 1951) was the founder of State Farm, headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois.Mecherle, a farmer who later became an insurance agent, founded State Farm after becoming dissatisfied with the insurance rates charged to farmers, as those rates included the risks of city drivers as well.
Isabelo Zenón Cruz assessed that Puerto Rican vernacular religions (and really any Afro-Latino religions) have been only studied by folklorists but not comparative religionists due to “classist and racist assumptions”. In Puerto Rico, brujeria has evolved from Indigenous Taino beliefs, African spiritual practices, and Spanish Catholicism.
Over the next 70 years, Texas Farm Bureau grew from 15,630 member families to more than 500,000 member families. [7] During its history, the organization has helped bring electricity and phone service to rural communities, establish a successful farm-to-market road system in Texas and enact effective national farm policy. [8]
The war between two top survival shelter firms has encompassed court battles, accusations of arson and murder, and wild tales of FBI double agents. Inside the bitter feud roiling the doomsday ...
Hordes, Stanley M. "The Inquisition as Economic and Political Agent: The Campaign of the Mexican Holy Office Against the Crypto-Jews in the Mid-Seventeenth Century." The Americas 39 no. 1 (1982) 23-38. Hordes, Stanley. To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico. New York: Columbia University Press 2005. Huerga, Alvaro.
Since 1951, the office has been left intact by the company. State Farm's historian claims that "90% of Mecherle's original material is still in the office." [7] Inside the office are sales receipts dating to 1936 and guest book entries from 1945. Though the office is not open to the public, the company uses it to impart knowledge of the company ...