Word: homesteads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young farmer-professor launched Farmer and Dairyman, later known as Wallace's Farmer when it was merged with the elder Wallace's Iowa Homestead. At the masthead of Wallace's Farmer is this motto, invented by the Presbyterian pastor: "Good Farming, Clear Thinking, Right Living...
...fortnight ago, General Dawes stood in the wet outside the Coolidge homestead at Plymouth, Vt., posed with his famed pipe for the benefit of patient photographers. Before the cameras clicked, he made a remark. Three Manhattan dailies recorded that remark thus...
Again the party took the train and proceeded to Ludlow, Vt., from whence a funeral procession of automobiles went twelve miles overland along the narrow hill roads to Plymouth. A grave had been dug in the little cemetery, only a few hundred yards from the Coolidge homestead. It lay on a tree-covered knoll. The services were very brief-less than 15 minutes in length. The little Marine Guard saluted, as the bugler sounded taps...
Reclamation. Homestead entrymen in reclamation projects on arid and semi-arid lands of the West have suffered from extravagant inefficiencies and mistakes of the Federal Government. The Reclamation Act of 1924, attached as a rider to the second deficiency bill, was eliminated by the Republican conferees in reporting the bill an hour before adjournment...
Congratulations began to pour in at the Dawes homestead (in Marietta). He stayed there less than 24 hours after his nomination and then started for Chicago, which welcomed him with cheers. His wife and his two adopted children, Dana, 12 and Virginia, 10, met him. He hugged them all, went to his office at the Central Trust Co. for an hour, then went home to Evanston, puritanical northern suburb of Chicago, to which Mr. Dawes is something of a tin deity...