Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio, his Scientific Methods, his marketing society and his political problems, he can be said to have become that standard U. S. product, a Busy Man. To save time for him something new in farm magazines has been invented. Monthly at Rochester, N. Y., there used to be published Rural Life & Farm Stock Journal. In its place there now is published The Rural Digest, a 32-pager, conceived, conscribed, composed and cut after the fashion of TIME, the Newsmagazine. The object: to boil down to terse paragraphs of restatement or selective quotation every 30 days, all the agricultural news...
...high export tax on citrate products prompted the chemist to set the mold to work. Moving In. Industrialization of farm waste would mean a reshuffling of factory sites, said the scientists. The source of supply would be the base, plants using waste products would be constructed in rural districts with the additional advantage of cheaper, more
Orphan. Farmer boy. Colleague of Yaqui Indians. Keeper of a general store. Employe of a U. S. engineering firm. Rural politician. Recruiter of a two-thirds Indian army in the revolution against Dictator Porfirio Diaz who had been seven times President of Mexico-such was the manner in which Orphan Obregon became General...
...York's Rochester is a comfortable city. Its population, about 325,000, is not too large for its ample area; it is pleasantly near Lake Ontario; it typifies much of the sturdy Republicanism, the rural conservatism, which mark upstate New York. If it is a question of noted sons, Minnesota's tiny Rochester may boast her famed surgeons, the brothers Mayo, but New York's Rochester answers with Cameraman George Eastman and is content. Good music and much education contribute to its civic culture; civic cleanliness is upheld by the barbers and laundrymen, who set aside...
Midwives still live and thrive in rural districts, announced Dr. Joe P. Bowdoin of the Georgia Board of Health. Many counties in Georgia have no physicians. Of the 65,000 babies born in 1927, about one-third were delivered by midwives, most of whom were old, ignorant, superstitious Negroes. Dr. Bowdoin told of the health board's work in instructing and certifying the 5,000 midwives, accompanied by a gratifying drop in deaths from childbirth...