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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1906
Page
7
Readers are invited to share sixperience ideas, plans, suggestions, and photos on local efforts to support home employment, street improvements, beautification of lawns, roadways, and parks, and the role of merchants. The editor welcomes contributions for these columns.
The Prophet is without honor in his own country as a thrifty Southwest town grows under pressure from development. An old city, with three railroads and 80,000 people, shows that natives overlook its opportunities until a stranger reveals them.
Watertown Massachusetts hosts the Homecrofter Guild promoting home ownership and garden plots for workers. It features a garden school for 700 children, weaving and handicraft shops, and land subdivision inspired by Port Sunlight and Bournville. Led by Edward Hartman, the movement seeks industrial independence and healthier, decentered urban life through home and garden.
The piece extols the value of a thrifty garden noting vegetables aid family health and save money. It urges every man to secure ground, fertilize it, and cultivate before planting seeds, highlighting the modest seed cost for a substantial garden.
The St Paul Press reports George H. Maxwell acquired fifty acres at Watertown Massachusetts to create small crofts for city workers. The plan outlines healthier surroundings diverse employment cooperative ownership and independent livelihoods with a focus on home crafts and local production within an hour of Boston.
A 160 acre Phoenix farm is developed into a homecraft village with five acre worker allotments and irrigation water secured by a Salt River reservoir and driven wells. The project promotes self sufficiency and public cooperation as a national model to reduce poverty and vagrancy.
An editorial advocates securing land for a town park while values are affordable. It emphasizes parks as natural green lungs benefiting all residents, not requiring lavish beautification, and notes growing towns will face higher prices. It calls for preserving land for a simple, sunlit public space.
The text argues for distributing immigration more evenly by guiding entrants through major ports and securing interior employment. It suggests states align immigration agencies to attract industrious newcomers to farms and smaller towns, reducing congestion and segregation.
In Rochester North Carolina school authorities grade and sod the school yards while shrubbery and planting are provided by private effort in conjunction with the students. Ample funds support decorative playground efforts and most exemplary results have been achieved.
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