New England Towns Face Trade Shifts and Local Improvement
An editorial urges New England towns to protect local commerce and home employment as cities draw away trade. It emphasizes pride in local environment, beautifying streets, parks, and private homes, and asks readers to share efforts in supporting local industries and merchants. It invites civic input for the town column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eogland
New England
Vermont
New York
Wenuell Mayups
Canal 1
Jans
Stronk
Eui Abnaneseh
Mail Order Hubs Could Help Or Hurt Farmers
A Chicago based mega store plan promises vast mail order facilities of 50 acre floor space and 10 stories, rivaled by another giant. The piece questions how such immense centers affect local merchants, farmers, and town prosperity, arguing markets and nearby towns sustain land values and local economies.
The Home Garden and the Bay's Tiny Plot of Ground
From age five a boy can become a gardener through simple, direct guidance. A small plot, a few beans, and mother nature teach growth, reward effort, and spark lifelong interest while instilling early lessons in value, trade, and local economy. Prof Cranefeld notes that home farming builds community wealth and personal earnings over a decade.
Taxation and catalogues threaten local town prosperity
The article argues that widespread use of cash-only catalogues and mail order firms will raise local taxation for households, lower home market values, and hurt farm land values. It notes catalogue houses can offer cheaper goods but at the cost of local merchants who extend credit and rely on higher margins. It emphasizes supporting local industry as essential to prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Windy City
Mongomery Ward and Company 5 & Huge
Chicago Avenue
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Montgomery Ware
New York
Dsst
United States
Hevar
Montgomery Ward and Co
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Dnsteed
Este
Ome
Eagh
Witeh Lou
Slogan of the Homecrofter Propaganda Excerpt
The excerpt presents George B. Maxwell advocating Industrial Independence for every worker in owner occupied homes. It links urban slums to social dynamite and calls for individual homes of the land owned by occupants to safeguard a growing population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Fiarden
Hontecvolta
George BH. Maxwell
Wis
Homecrofters Movement Promotes Land Based Prosperity
A renewed call for the Homecrofters movement urges citizens to form local Circles to promote town and village betterment. It features a Watertown gildhall with a Garden School, training in homecraft and rural industries, and a program to build homes on the land through education, taxation reform, and irrigation projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tia Homecroft Movement
Lnfyrim
Watertown
Massachusetts
Main Street
Public Lands Policy Demands Home Steaders and Forest Plans
A historic call urges lands reclaimed under the National Irrigation Act to favor homemakers and actual settlers. It demands ending land scrip, aligning Desert Land Law with Public Lands Commission recommendations, repealing Timber and Stone Law, and creating permanent forest reserves with national ownership of land and water rights linked to the land. It also proposes grazing reserves, annual licenses, and state homestead laws mirroring a unified public land system to ensure U.S. ownership and use principles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Sacramento
Colorado
Rio Grande
Misgouri
Secretary of the Interior
Shell
Congress
General Treasury
Reclamation Fund
Public Lands Commission
Roosevelt
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
The Coming People and its New Popular Edition
A brief notice promoting The Coming People by Charles F. Dole, arguing for social reform and a fairer distribution of wealth. It notes the book’s availability in a popular edition by Homecrofter's Gold of the Taleman for 25 cents plus postage, with remittance details for Watertown, Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homecrofters
Clid of the Tatlaman
Main St
Watertown
Massachusetts
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Erry IV
Brotherhood of Man
Charity
Nippon
Tomecrofters
Perce
Opportunity Homecrofts
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Lfe
New Zealand
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UN Brotherhood of Man
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