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Following announcement of his victory last week Nominee La Follette went to the family homestead, Maple Bluff Farm near Madison, there acted as best man at his Senator-Brother's wedding (see p. 56). The bride: Rachel Wilson Young, since 1924 secretary to the Robert La Follettes, ? father & son. So sudden were the marriage plans that the Senator had to obtain special abrogation of the Wisconsin five-day application...
Silver bowl, from 12,000 persons of and near Winchester, Va., Byrd family homestead...
...putting Mr. Raskob into the lobby spotlight, examining him on Prohibition. Even if he has done no lobbying, his appearance before the Committee would serve to remind Dry Democrats throughout the land that they still had a Wet leader, to rekindle the old fires which gutted the party homestead...
...houses exclusively for social purposes. A certain income is mandatory, which means that initiation fees will have to be increased to so exorbitant a degree that membership will off that account be not desirable. The alternative will be for the fraternities and clubs to disband, after selling the old homestead at a considerable loss. Yours Truly, H. J. Freed...
...Federal Government through the years had doled out its domain to its citizens to homestead, to the railroads to develop new territory, to prospectors to exploit. For the asking and a promise to live there homesteaders could, and still can, get 160 acres, stockmen 640 acres. In 1902 when most of the good farming land was gone the U. S. began reclaiming the desert by irrigation. Today some 600,000 persons cultivate 3,200,000 acres of land reclaimed at a cost...