Cavalcade of Farm Mechanisation Shows Era of Power
A visual study titled Agriculture in the Age of Mechanical Power compares 1900 farm life with 1950s mechanized norms. It notes tractors replacing horses, electric homes, motor cars, school buses, and expanded leisure for farm families while highlighting shifts in labor, earnings, and national growth driven by mechanization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alantic Seaboard
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
America
Abraham Lincoln
Prairie
Horace Greely
United States Commissioner of Agriculture
Farewell social honors popular Jamestown teacher
Mr Alick J Perren long associated with Jamestown and now returning from the West Coast where he led Charra Plains school was bid farewell in a well attended social. He was known as a teller of tales and entertained with humorous anecdotes. Presentations came from the Church sporting bodies and residents with Rev M Padman and Messrs L Dunnet and H R Haseldine speaking. Perren thanked supporters and recalled his happy home life with Mr and Mrs Saunders. The event featured a musical program and dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alick J. Perren
Jamestown
West Coast
Charra Plains
Perren
Mr. Perren
M. Padman
Messra L. Dunnet
H. R. Haseldine
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W. L. Palmer
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Review Office
National Library of Australia
A. G. Healing Ltd
Golden
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H. W. Bennett
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F.T.A
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Glen Smith
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J. B. Wisnevske
Westinghouse
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J. Horsburgh
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Whitney
McCormick
Iowa
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C. H. Parr
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Buick
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H.V. McKay
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Castrol Oils
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Cmuual
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W. H. Scott & Son
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Goodyear
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