We Must Plant Forests and Build Homes for Workers
The address at Michigan Agricultural College June 20 1905 by George H Maxwell urges decentralizing industry to rural towns. He warns forests are vanishing and needs swift forest reserves and home gardens to lift workers from cities. He calls for national forestry policy, rural schools, and housing to reshape society.
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Michigan Agricultural Colfege
George H. Maxwell
National Irrigation Association
Maxwell
Imad Deouts
Missouri club women push cleaner towns campaign
In Columbia Herald coverage the Missouri club women push a cleaner cities campaign. St Joseph and other large towns promote cleanliness with women led programs supervising street cleaning and fund disbursement. Trenton and Joplin schools join in Arbor Day efforts to beautify campuses and wards with flowers and improved premises.
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Columbia Herald
Missouri
St Joseph
Macon
Mittchants
Trenton
Brewers Club
Mfrs. TN. Witten
Vira J. A. Agher
Gulzeng
Joplin
Perry
Ralls County
F. Osborne
Toplin
A. Baker
Homecropters and Independence on the Land
excerpted lines echo a rural ideal of "Every Child in a Garden" and "Industrial Independence for Every Worker" as speakers urge self sufficient crofts. references to farms, homes, and urban danger frame a call for local self reliance amid city crowding and fuel fears.
The Homecrofters Book Debuts With Rural Uplift Plan
The First Book of the Homecrofters promotes a nationwide program led by the Brotherhood of Man Charity. It outlines education reforms and town growth through Homecrofters Circles, Garden Schools, and local industries in Watertown Massachusetts. It calls for land reform, public education on homecraft, and national policies to encourage small homesteads, irrigation, and rural settlement to curb urban drift.
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Eal
Watertown
Massachusetts
Mary Street
Homccrofters
Homecrofters
Clid
Talisman
Main St. Watertown
Isaa Fol
Hit
Isam
Taugut
Public Lands Reform Proposals and Forest Plantations Plan
The text outlines sweeping public land reforms including restricting new grants to actual settlers, aligning Desert Land and Homestead laws with a Public Lands Commission, creating permanent forest reserves, planting national forest plantations, and repealing the Timber and Stone Law. It calls for grazing reserves under Agriculture Secretary control, limits on homestead acreage, state land management for settlers, and unified ownership of land and water with beneficial use rules for water rights.
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United States
Michitigan
Congress
California
White Mountain
Applachlint
Columbia
Sacramento
Colado
Rio Grande
Missouri
Tnterior
Cancress
General Treasury
Redlametio Fund
Public Lands Commission
Roosevelt
Secretary of Agriculture
Ball
Garden for city dwellers urged by Des Moines editorial
A Des Moines Daily News piece clipped and reprinted argues every city family should have a garden. It cites personal benefit and moral uplift from growing food and flowers, noting even small plots provide exercise and delight, comparing city dwellers’ dull, cage-like lives to birds in captivity without such green space.
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Homecroft Gardena
Homecroft
Maxwell
Homemaker
Blagazine
Westhrinen
Iowa
Des Atoines Daily News
News Sys
Tian
Ian
Awellee
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National Foundations
Legis
Thoese
Burroughs
Senate
Dierence
Mammon
Janesce
Chicago
Packingtons
Merchaxt
Church
Home Industrs
Metropolitan Family
Wonil Ofler
Turge
Corps Ettos
Lfe
Kelly Sten
Ufe
Hamecrofters
Jann
Jno
Panecrofter
Pishor
Quinn
Biamantle
Ketry
Grady
Gocal
Salilena
George LA. Maxwell
Educatic Opportund
The
Brotherhood of Man Charity
Nippon
Homecrofts
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