Lending a Helping Hand


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Lending a Helping Hand

FIS started their own monthly newspaper in 1897. The newspaper, named The Helping Hand, was used to further spread FIS’s message. Subscriptions to the newspaper were not required to be a member of the organization, though eventually R. L. Smith felt that each charter should have a required number of subscriptions. Smith saw the newspaper as an integral part of the society’s mission to better farmer’s lives.


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