Word: ruralization
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Gardner Cowles was then 42, with six children and not much money. A small-town banker in Algona, in northern Iowa, he had taught school there, married one of the teachers, made a little money as a contractor in rural mail routes. For a while he edited a local weekly called the Advance. His great & good friend was the rival paper's editor. Harvey Ingham. In 1902 Editor Ingham went to Des Moines to edit the down-at-heel Register & Leader, persuaded his friend Cowles to buy the paper. Price: $300,000. What Mr. Cowles thought he was buying...
...said the corn was more important. Younger Iowans had been singing for months, singing while they plowed and planted, milked their cows and fed the hens. Frequently they would do their chores before dawn, drive all day to rehearse at county meetings with other farm folk. Result: an all-rural production...
...Knoxville, Tenn. last week one woman died of spinal meningitis and an other victim developed the disease. They were the 21st case and 15th death from spinal meningitis there this year. In rural Knox County, outside Knoxville, five cases have been discovered; one died. In other east Tennessee counties doctors have reported several sporadic cases. The situation last week caused Dr. Fray Owen Pearson, Knoxville's young epidemiologist, to cry: "Alarmingly serious. . . . Take care of your bodies and health. . . . Keep your children away from public places and crowds and always away from the funerals of people who have died...
...their pockets, Frank Walker, Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins went to the White House one afternoon last week, spent two hours parceling out the first billion. Half of it went for highways, roads, streets, grade crossings. PWA got a quarter billion dollars for slum clearance, low-cost housing. Rural Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell received a round $100,000,000 to spend as he pleased. Another $100,000,000 went to Army engineers, half of it for dredging the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Two genuinely newsworthy prizes were drawn from the grab-bag by the Democrats of Maine...
This week in an executive order President Roosevelt prescribed wage scales for the work relief program. Dividing the nation into four regions-Deep South, Middle South, Central States, Northern States-he established rates based upon five population classifications ranging from rural districts and towns under 5,000 to cities over 100,000. Categories of workers: unskilled, intermediate, skilled, professional and technical. Lowest pay will be $19 per month for unskilled rural labor in the Deep South; highest, $94 for Northern professional city workers. Pay will be on a monthly basis, with no deduction for interruptions such as caused...