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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1912
Page
2
A magazine writer ponders solutions for rotting surplus fruit and questions how urban poor can access country opportunities. The piece explores shifting to farming, obtaining land, equipment, and sustenance, and the feasibility for city families to relocate and sustain new livelihoods.
The writer argues that to shift population from cities to rural areas, aid is needed for the rural novice. Private wealth or government action could provide land, tools, seeds, and instruction, plus cooperative schemes to help city residents become producers. He condemns post office stamp confusion as a counterproductive obstacle.
A editorials mix moral outrage over mob violence and political provocation. A Pennsylvania man was sent to asylum for selling a companion amid warnings that violence erodes authority. Also noted are a Sunday railway timetable change and a warning against publishing personal crisis reports by New South Wales papers.
About sixty striking trainmen at the Home stead MINS returned to work this morning in Finisberg Pa. A hundred were still out. A meeting of those still out is called tonight to consider the proposal for a sympathetic strike. Among other workers Thy mest Ing has been called under the aegis of the Iron Workers of the World.
Members of the Progressive party will hold meetings at rooms 4 and 6 Tracton Bldgs Wednesday night December 11 1912 at 7 oclock for reorganization. All members urged to attend and take active part by order of W H Cole President advit
Presbyterian ladies will pack the missionary box in the church parlors Saturday afternoon. All contributions should be there at that time.
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