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Show i WOMEN ORGANIZED A HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION Boston, April 5. Prominent business busi-ness and professional women in Boston Bos-ton have organized the Women's Homestead association with a view to solving the problem of occupation for the 100,000 surplus spinsters and widows wid-ows In the state of Massachusetts. The association proposes to enlist the aid of the fctate In purchasing small tracts of laud near the larger cities on which women may engage in agricultural agricul-tural enterprises. It Is pointed out that women could- raise with profit flowers, strawberries, vegetables, squabs, pigs, chickens and beef, if tho Htate would only provide cheap and comfortable homes on the property. Several philanthropists are willing to buy tho land and give the state a mortgage mort-gage upon It under the foregoing conditions. |