{"id":135,"date":"2026-01-31T17:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:59:13","slug":"1914-raisin-queen-contest-generated-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/1914-raisin-queen-contest-generated-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"1914 Raisin Queen contest generated heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"135\" class=\"elementor elementor-135\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1aadad0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1aadad0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-212768c5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"212768c5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Maderans in the early part of the 20th century weren\u2019t completely preoccupied with politics; after all there was going to be a contest to choose some local high school girl to represent Madera in the California Raisin Day Celebration in Fresno.<\/p><p>April 30, 1914 was set as the day for pulling out the stops and raising three cheers for raisins. Although the celebration would be held in Fresno, Madera would have its day in the sun. It would choose a young lady who would ride on the San Joaquin Counties float as the Raisin Queen of Madera.<\/p><p>Selecting a Raisin Queen for Madera was not an easy task. W.C. Maloy, the secretary of the Madera County Chamber of Commerce, was reported to have been \u201cin a quandary.\u201d According to the local newspaper, he had been \u201cchosen to select some beautiful Madera woman to grace the float\u2026 but did not know how to go about it.\u201d The sympathetic paper noted that this was a \u201creally mean thing to do.\u201d Maloy put out the word that he was anxiously seeking suggestions on the selection process.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maderans in the early part of the 20th century weren\u2019t completely preoccupied with politics; after all there was going to be a contest to choose some local high school girl to represent Madera in the California Raisin Day Celebration in Fresno. April 30, 1914 was set as the day for pulling out the stops and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[29,46,54],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-community","tag-organizations","tag-youth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44209,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/44209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}