Forestry and Homecrafts at the 1906 women’s club gathering
Madame President advocates forest preservation in California and the Appalachians while urging a homegrown reform: save the big trees, promote forest reserves, and advance the Homecroft movement. She argues women can shape national policy through household influence and calls for child garden education and universal homeownership to strengthen society.
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Mill
Althomeh
California
White Mountains
Appalachian Range
Christ
Rome
Carthage
Mediterranean
Palmyra
Asia
Sluma
Iit
Fragmentary OCR Note on Garden and Church Time
A garbled OCR fragment references corn storage, herbs like mint and thyme, a Sunday church context, and a bell chime. Details are unclear, with partial words and numbers.
Public Lands and Water Rights Principles for Irrigation
A historical legislative outline proposes government loans for irrigation construction, limiting land grants to actual settlers, repealing timber laws, creating national forest plantations, and uniting land and water rights for irrigation. It asserts public water is scarce and priority rules apply across interstate streams and drainage basins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
General Treasury
Reclamation Fund
Public Lands Commission
Roosevelt
United States
Columbia
Sacramento
Colorado
Rio Grande
Missouri
First Homecrofters Gild Founded at Watertown MA
The Homecrofters movement launches its Gild of the Talisman in Watertown Massachusetts with a Garden School and over a hundred children at work in the gardens. The project aims to build model town and village circles promoting education, home craft, and rural independence through local circles and national reform.
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Homecroft
Watertown
Massachusetts
Main Street
Homecrofters
Talisman
Main St
Also Mentioned on This Page
Forestry and Homecrofts
George H. Maxwell
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
St. Paul, Minn
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Forest Reserve
White Mountain Forest
New Ingland
Panama Canal
Philippine Islands
Arizons
New Mexico
Arizona
Pennsylvania
Ossa
Pelion
Apphiose
Mother Earth
Eden
Homecroft Movement
THE
Brotherhood OF Man Charity
Nippon
Mass
Repub
Enry W. Grady
Homecrofts Cooperation
National Irrigation Association
Brotherhood of Man
Opportunity Homecrofts
Eadeiag
New Zealand
Charles F. Dole
Theodore C. Williams
Hackley School
New York
San Francisco
London Spectator
Bradford
England
Watertown, Mass
Maxwell
Homemaker
Crockett
Texas
HoMs
Torte & Plammdy
Max Wells
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