Forests and Homecrofts Emphasized at Convention
Madame president speaks at the Biennial Convention in St Paul urging preservation of California redwoods and creation of Appalachian and White Mountain forest reserves. She argues women can shape policy through home life, education, and nationwide activism, promoting Arizona New Mexico forest plans and a broad Homecroft movement.
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General Federation of ‘Women’s Clubs
St. Paul, Minn
Millis
California
National Irrigation Movement
Ing. Miosst
Inaw
Carthage
Mediterranean
Palmyra
Asia
Max
Avery
Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Forest Reserve
White Mountain Forest Reservation
New England
Panama Canal
Philippine Islands
Arizona
New Mexico
Pennsylvania
Ossa
Pelion
Mother Earth
Eden
Homecroft Movement
Homecrofters
Education Opportunity The Slogan Of The Homecrofter
The text advocates education opportunity and home ownership as a path to individual industrial independence. It cites figures urging small owned home crofts and family households on land to stabilize society and deter urban social instability. It frames a national appeal for self reliance through owning a home and garden.
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George H. Maxwell
Crockett
Texas
Homecrofters Promote Town and Village Betterment Movement
The first Homecrofters Gild opens in Watertown Massachusetts at 143 Main Street with a Garden School and looms for homecraft training The movement aims to duplicate such Gilds nationwide to foster education employment and homes on the land and reduce urban migration.
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Homecroft
Watertown
Massachusetts
Main Street
Homecrofters
Talisman
Main St
Public Lands Reform and Water Rights Proposals
National policy outlines sweeping land and water reforms. Provisions include restricting land grants to actual settlers, ending land scrip, repealing timber laws, creating permanent forest reserves, and uniting land and water ownership under federal oversight with priority rights for irrigation across interstate streams.
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Uch
United States
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Brotherhood OF Man
Niffon
Wordsworth
Republic
Grady
St Homecrofters
The
National Irrigation Association
Charity
Nippon
Opportunity Homecrofts
New Zealand
Ren
National
Save. the Public Lands For Homemarkhrs
Public Lands Commission
Roosevelt
Congress
United
Charles F. Dole
Franhis
Theodore C. Williams
Hackley School
New York
San Francisco
London Spectator
Bradford
England
Ikass
Maxwell
Homemaker