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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>MYSTIC WORKERS OF THE WORLD. The Mystic Workers of the World was founded in Fulton, Illinois in 1896 as a fraternal benefit society. The organization was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">founded </del>to offer insurance alternatives to the growing middle class in the Midwest and northern states. In 1930, Mystic Workers of the World changed its name to Fidelity Life Association. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>MYSTIC WORKERS OF THE WORLD. The Mystic Workers of the World was founded in Fulton, Illinois in 1896 as a fraternal benefit society. The organization was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">established </ins>to offer insurance alternatives to the growing middle class in the Midwest and northern states. In 1930, Mystic Workers of the World changed its name to Fidelity Life Association. (1)</div></td></tr>
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</table>Randylyonhttps://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=MYSTIC_WORKERS_OF_THE_WORLD&diff=182845&oldid=prevRandylyon at 03:36, 1 November 20242024-11-01T03:36:07Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>MYSTIC WORKERS OF THE WORLD. The Mystic Workers of the World was founded in Fulton, Illinois in 1896 as a fraternal benefit society. The organization was founded to offer insurance alternatives to the growing middle class in the Midwest and northern states. In 1930, Mystic Workers of the World changed its name to Fidelity Life Association. (1)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>MYSTIC WORKERS OF THE WORLD. The Mystic Workers of the World was founded in Fulton, Illinois in 1896 as a fraternal benefit society. The organization was founded to offer insurance alternatives to the growing middle class in the Midwest and northern states. In 1930, Mystic Workers of the World changed its name to Fidelity Life Association. (1)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:MWW1.png|left|thumb|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">300px</del>|Receipt cards used by the association. Photo courtesy: Jeanne Cross]] By February 1902 the Dubuque lodge had 125 members while the entire organization had a membership of 25,000. (3) In 1903 officers of Key City Lodge, No. 477 included [[QUIGLEY, Patrick J.|Patrick J. QUIGLEY]], vice-president. (4)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:MWW1.png|left|thumb|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">400px</ins>|Receipt cards used by the association. Photo courtesy: Jeanne Cross]] By February 1902 the Dubuque lodge had 125 members while the entire organization had a membership of 25,000. (3) In 1903 officers of Key City Lodge, No. 477 included [[QUIGLEY, Patrick J.|Patrick J. QUIGLEY]], vice-president. (4)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By February 1902 the Dubuque lodge had 125 members while the entire organization had a membership of 25,000. (3) In 1903 officers of Key City Lodge, No. 477 included [[QUIGLEY, Patrick J.|Patrick J. QUIGLEY]], vice-president. (4)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Image:MWW1.png|left|thumb|300px|Receipt cards used by the association. Photo courtesy: Jeanne Cross]] </ins>By February 1902 the Dubuque lodge had 125 members while the entire organization had a membership of 25,000. (3) In 1903 officers of Key City Lodge, No. 477 included [[QUIGLEY, Patrick J.|Patrick J. QUIGLEY]], vice-president. (4)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In January 1922 the local lodge was presented with a sixteen inch loving cup following the initiation of twenty-five new members. The cup was presented by Supreme Secretary Hammerlund in appreciation of the local lodge initiating the largest number of candidates during the past year. In the party that followed over two hundred members participated. (5)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In January 1922 the local lodge was presented with a sixteen inch loving cup following the initiation of twenty-five new members. The cup was presented by Supreme Secretary Hammerlund in appreciation of the local lodge initiating the largest number of candidates during the past year. In the party that followed over two hundred members participated. (5)</div></td></tr>
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