Great Forests and Homecroft Reform Urged by Maxwell
George I Maxwell, speaking at Michigan Agricultural College on June 20, warns that destroying forests endangers farms and industries, urges permanent forest reserves, nationwide reforestation, and local suburban development to lift workers from slums. He cites timber shortages, calls for public land preservation, and promotes Homecrofter ideals to create independent rural homes and thriving communities.
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Michigan Agricultural College
Tor
George IL Maxwell
National Irrigation Reveiation
Maxwell
Mr. Maxvwell
Lin Mien
Burroughs
Iit
Senate
Laver
Jurbéip
Japrz
Batte
Chicago
Suvarbin
Missouri Women Begin Campaign for Cleaner Cities
The Missouri club women push a cleaner city movement across towns led by St. Joseph and Macon. In Trenton a drive promotes lawn and garden care with prize incentives for children, seeds supplied by the club, and a municipal cleaning day urged by the mayor. Joplin and Perry schools join in Arbor Day and beautification efforts, with organizers stressing that a town must be built first and then made beautiful.
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Missouri
Columbia. Herald
Club Women of
St. Joseph
Macon
Trenton
T. N. Witten
Mra. J. A. Asher
Joplin
Perry
Ralle
J. ¥. Oxborne
Baker
Homecroft Ideals On Individual Independence For Workers
A fragmented quotation discusses the Homecroft movement advocating every child in a carden and every mother in a holecrof home. It argues for independent home ownership as the safeguard against social dynamite in overcrowded cities and promotes individual industrious independence for workers.
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Sonmer
George H. Maxwell
Elin
Makling
Homecrofters Movement Promotes Town and Village Betterment
The First Book of the Homecrofters outlines a national program to create Homecrofts through local circles and gilds. It calls for education in gardening, land reform, and rural settlement with government support for small holdings, irrigation, and tax exemptions to foster homebased work and stability.
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Tome
Homecroft
Watertown
Massachusetts
Main Street
New Zealand
Hood
Drouth
Columbia
T Cromonta
Colorado
Rio Grande
Missouri
Public Lands and Forest Plans Under National Irrigation Act
Provisions outline land use reforms under the National Irrigation Act including reserving lands for homesteaders, creating national forest plantations, repealing the And Stone Law, and establishing grazing reserves. It assigns state administration of lands, unity of land and water rights, and prior appropriation for beneficial use across interstate basins.
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Roosevelt
Alten
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Garden movement urged for city dwellers by Des Moines editorial
A Des Moines Daily News editorial clipped for MASWEELS Homemaker Magazine argues a home garden benefits city residents beyond saving money. It praises planting even small plots for personal growth, health, and moral reasons, urging every urban family to cultivate vegetables and flowers.
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Homecroft
Masweels Homemaker Magazine
Westbranch
Iows
Des Moines Daily News
News
Te Veill
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National Foundations
Lok
Chicaco
Packingtown
Thuber
Michigan
Congress
Meels
Congres
California
White Mountain
Appelnatinn
New England
South
Arisana
Mexico
X. Homecrofters
The
Brotherhood of Man
Charity
Nippon
Homecrofters
Clid
Talismart
Main St
Suvast
Opportunity
Homegrofts
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