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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1906
Page
11
The article notes how locals undervalue their own resources and how a stranger’s perspective reveals neglected opportunities. It describes a thrifty old city in the Southwest, rapidly advancing under pressure of development with five railroads and a population around 30,000, citing its modern buildings and growing pace.
The Homecrofters Gild in Watertown Massachusetts promotes garden work and crafts for factory workers to earn in home gardens, offering land, weaving and shop spaces, and a long term plan to subdivide land for affordable home ownership modeled on Bournville. It advocates industrial workers gaining home ownership and healthier living through urban countryside integration.
A classic editorial urges thrifty gardens as vital to family health and savings. It argues vegetables are essential, promotes owning garden space, proper fertilization, and cultivation before planting seeds. It notes seeds are inexpensive for a good-sized plot.
Prominent advocate Mr Maxwell buys fifty acres at Watertown near Boston to test the homecroft idea for wage earners. It argues benefits include healthier surroundings, diverse work, cooperative access to machinery and services, and the prospect of independent homeownership reducing city crowding while boosting nearby land values.
The article urges early action to secure land for town parks before growth raises prices. It favors simple, natural green spaces rather than ornate gardens, viewing parks as civilizing, egalitarian refuges offering sunlight and relief from daily struggles for all residents.
Distribution of Immigrants Re Solution. If there were only some practicable way of distributing immigration more equally among all the parts of the country the congestion and segregation phases of this problem would be nearer solution. It can be accomplished in but a small degree since it will only be done if answering an economic demand. Wise and well organized effort to induce immigrants to pass through the large ports by finding and insuring them employment in the interior will do much to improve conditions.
In Rochester New York school authorities grade and sod yards. Shrubbery and planting are by private effort in conjunction with school children. Ample land provides for decorative playground use and most exemplary results are reported.
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