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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1906
Page
10
A civic column invites participation from civic and local improvement groups to share actions, plans, and advice for boosting rural village life. Readers are urged to report on small industries, street and park beautification, and local merchant support to preserve the community's character.
A long editorial questions whether Chicago’s giant mail order complexes and new firms like Sears Roebuck will aid or harm the country. It argues that thriving towns depend on strong local markets and agricultural wealth, warning that diverting farmers’ dollars to catalogs could drain home towns of 150000 dollars annually in a 1000 resident trading area.
Prof Cranefield argues a boy starts as a budding gardener at five, learning through a small plot and beans. Expanding the garden builds responsibility and money sense, with long term town prosperity from local patronage and farm value gains, while keeping focus on the boy's own crop profits and lessons.
The piece argues that widespread cash mail order shopping harms local merchants, increases tax burdens on towns, lowers farm land values, and reduces home market prospects. It notes catalogue houses offer cheap prices due to cash transactions, while local merchants bear bad debts from credit, supporting a view that communities building local industries prosper most.
The passage extols Homecroft ideals with slogans about Every Child in a Garden and Every Worker in a Home of his Own on the Land. It contrasts rural croft pleasures with citizen contentment and warns that slums threaten society unless millions gain private homes on land.
A promotion for the Homecrofters movement outlines a plan to create model rural communities with gardens, homecraft schools, and town clubs. The first gild is in Watertown Massachusetts at 143 Main Street with gardens and weaving shops. The pledge calls for education on land based living, irrigation projects, forest reserves, and tax protections for homestead families. It advocates public lands reform and national action to secure homes on the land, with a strong emphasis on rural development, employment, and civic pride.
An editorial urging awareness of radical social changes and systemic flaws in wealth and production. It highlights inequality, looming poverty, and the need for just settlements, endorsing a popular edition of The Coming People by the Homecrofter Gild of the Talisman and providing ordering details.
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