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Periodical: Plowshare and Pruning Hook

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Plowshare and Pruning Hook.

Indicator of Commercial Equation.
Other titles: The Pruning Hook (original title)
1891--1895 Monthly, sporadic
San Francisco, CA, and after 1892 Chicago, IL.
Publisher: Koreshan Unity, Bureau of Equitable Commerce.
Editor: Koresh (Cyrus R. Teed), Director, C.J. McClaughlin, editor.
Succeeded by: The Flaming Sword
1/1, May 1, 1891-3/4, January 26, 1895. 8-12 pp., 50 cents a year.

This was the organ of Koreshan Unity in San Francisco, and when that community merged into the Chicago group in 1892 the journal was continued from Chicago. Its purpose was exalted: "With the plowshare of love we will turn up in humanity's field the soil so long hidden from, the warmth of God's wisdom and with the pruning hook of truth we will trim the Tree of Life of its hell poisoned branches until ‘the wilderness and solitary places shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.'" On a more practical level the journal criticized "the merciless foe of every form of Governmental usurpation and thievery and of corporate monopoly" in favor of "a masterful system of commercial equation, whereby the producer and consumer are brought face to face." On Cyrus R. Teed's Koreshan Unity, see the note under The Flaming Sword. S.C. Gould in Notes and Queries, 8/7 (July 1891): 322, describes the journal as "Truth on all live questions fearlessly, plainly, and pungently expressed. A live journal on live subjects, religious, commercial, financial, social, and moral." Koreshan State Historical Site.

This run of Plowshare and Pruning Hook is provided by the Koreshan Unity digital archive project at Hamilton College.

Issues:Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N1 May 1 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N2 Jun 1 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N3 Jun 6 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N4 Jun 13 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N5 Jun 20 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N6 Jun 27 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N7 Jul 4 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N8 Jul 11 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N9 Jul 18 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N10 Jul 25 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N11 Aug 1 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N12 Aug 8 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N13 Aug 15 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N14 Aug 22 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N15 Aug 29 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N16 Sep 5 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N17 Sep 12 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N18 Sep 19 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N19 Sep 26 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N20 Oct 3 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N21 Oct 10 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N22 Oct 17 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N23 Oct 24 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N24 Oct 31 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N25 Nov 7 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V1 N26 Nov 14 1891
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N1 Jul 7 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N2 Jul 14 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N3 Jul 21 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N4 Jul 28 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N5 Aug 4 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N6 Aug 11 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N7 Aug 18 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N8 Aug 25 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N9 Sep 1 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N10 Sep 8 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N11 Sep 15 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N12 Sep 22 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N13 Sep 29 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N14 Oct 6 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N15 Oct 13 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N16 Oct 20 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N17 Oct 27 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N18 Nov 3 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N19 Nov 10 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N20 Nov 17 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N21 Nov 24 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N22 Dec 1 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N23 Dec 8 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N24 Dec 15 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N25 Dec 22 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V2 N26 Dec 29 1894
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V3 N1 Jan 5 1895
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V3 N2 Jan 12 1895
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V3 N3 Jan 19 1895
Plowshare And Pruning Hook V3 N4 Jan 26 1895

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