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Newspaper
The La Jara Chronicle
Location
La Jara, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
8
A guide to proper apple picking timing tests by seed color, when to defer harvest to avoid watercore, and how packing methods affect price. It covers use of trained pickers, box versus barrel packaging, ladder designs, receptacles, and labeling to build a trusted, higher value trade.
The piece urges beautifying school grounds through plantings funded by student involvement. It cites lack of space in city schools and scarce greenery in industry towns, argues trees provide windbreaks and shade, and highlights Arbor Day and a U S Department of Agriculture bulletin on Rural School Gardens. It envisions schools as integrated with nature to educate and improve communities.
Edward H. Chandler of the Twentieth Century Club urged a national move to create "home crofts" with an acre for each family to study nature. He praised country living, democracy, andTraining through school gardens as vital to character and a simple, purposeful life.
A photograph based sketch recalls Colorado potato growers shipping washed 10 pound sacks to Chicago for high bids while eastern crops boomed. It cites fruit and vegetable packaging as price determinants and extols Arbor Day tree culture in Idaho schools, urging hands‑on nurseries and seed planting for youth involvement and lasting environmental care.
A civic piece argues towns should secure land for parks early to serve growing populations. It emphasizes natural, quiet green spaces as civilizing relief regardless of ornate landscaping and warns that land values rise with growth, making late purchase difficult.
The piece argues for distributing immigrants more evenly by directing economic demand to interior regions and large ports. It suggests promoting interior employment and informing newcomers about opportunities elsewhere, plus leveraging state immigration agencies to draw industrious newcomers to farms and small towns.
In Rochester New York school authorities grade and sod yards while shrubbery and planting are by private effort in conjunction with the school children Ample land is provided for decorative playground purposes and most exemplary results have been achieved.
The piece argues metropolis life sharpens a child but dulls genuine cleverness. Urban youth become superficial, excitable yet lacking enthusiasm, seeing many things without deep interest or time to reach the roots of busy surroundings.
A jumble of want ads seeks a lease on a good office in a town of 1500 or more and lists stenographers needed for fast dictation with machine work. It also offers railroad job prospects for firemen brakemen ages 20 to 30 with salaries and career paths. An ad for a waist holder promises a product that stays in place with a 25 cent request.
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