Word: homesteads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MISSOURI: A movement is on foot to buy the Mark Twain homestead, near Florida, Mo., where Mark Twain was born. The owner of the homestead is willing to give the house to the state and sell the land at a fair valuation...
Unable to conquer his wanderlust, he next went to sea and spent three years before the mast. Then he returned to Oregon and took out a homestead claim in the woods, where he lived until 1909. At this time he became interested in the I. W. W. movement and, selling his land, went abroad to study law, languages and the labor problem...
...Kelley was serving as president of the board of trustees of the John Greenleaf Whittier homestead in Haverhill, was vestryman at Christ Church, Cambridge, a member of the National Education Association, of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, of the New Hampshire Historical Society, of the American Astronomical Society, and of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
When Lamb's young Ho-bo destroyed his father's house and incidentally cooked the pigs, the news spread about the neighborhood and a general conflagration was the result. It was soon discovered, however, that burning the family homestead was a costly and round-about method of securing a few pork chops and as a result improved methods were brought into practice, as every one knows...
Feinberg, A. I., 67 Homestead St., Roxbury...