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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 06, 1927

Page

8

Save Home of Carrie Nation Urged as Shrine

A drive to buy the brick house near L D Lodge Kansas that sheltered Mrs Carrie Nation and her husband, famed hatchet wielder of temperance days, urges preservation as a national events shrine. The five room cottage, now aging, would join Osawatomie’s monument and park in honoring Nation’s temperance campaigns and jail terms and her continued action after release.

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Drift of Farm Population Shifts Alarm Economists

The report notes a 1926 drop of 649000 in farm residents, total 27,492,000, with 2,155,000 moving to cities and 1,136,000 from cities to farms. Net farm loss 1,020,000 plus 287,000 farm deaths offset by 655,000 births yields a total farm population decline of 659,000.

International News Service Washington United States Department of Agriculture Department’s Bureau of Economics

Albany farmer comments on Echols Hill entrance amid heavy rainfall

Bod Willingham, an Albany Route 2 farmer visiting the city, notes the southern Echols Hill entrance to the Raindfall River area with the remark You bump in and then bump out. The past 24 hours have brought unusually heavy rain, the local weather office reports 18 inches. Decatur appears as a hub in the discussion.

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