Multiple Community Events Highlight Carthage Area Life
Marriages unite locals Sel Nayyoningy Gee-Rooker Gilbert L Gee and Eva L Rook er at Carthage Wesleyan parsonage. Choral Club hosts practice for Easter cantata and serves refreshments. Various clubs meet with reports, fund drives, and lectures. public invited to free movies and cantata. Easter events include district Wesleyan rallies and services in Shelbyville and Pendleton.
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Gilbert L. Gee
Eva L. Rooker
Carthage Wesleyan Parsonage
Sharlee Kyser
North
South America
Fletcher Methodist Church
Robert Spangler
Louis Humes
Lois Reames
Peter Grant Back as WLW Newsman Returns
WLW announces Peter Grant resumes duties as newsman with veteran broadcaster George Grant referenced in brief obituary noting both brothers aged 80.
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Peter Grant Back
WLW
Arlington Ghost Town Sold For Ten Thousand Dollars
Rolla Missouri theater owner Rowe Carney bought the near‑ghost town of Arlington, 120 acres with a hotel, post office, railroad station, two stores and 15 houses, after Fred Pillman listed it at auction. Pillman hoped for thirty thousand but accepted ten thousand. Carney plans to revive Arlington as a fishing resort on the Gasconade River.
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Rowe Carney
Rolla, Mo
Fred Pillman
Phelps County
Carney
Arlington, Mo
Arlington
Pillman
Martha Pillman Wright
Maggie Southard
L. F. Pillman
Gasconade River
Hoover Warns of Impending Famine Across Europe
Herbert Hoover reported from Europe that famine is inevitable unless America and other wheat producers immediately ship supplies. He spoke in London after touring the continent, stressing the urgency as the war constrains food, with implications for civilians including enemy-occupied areas.
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Herbert Hoover
Europe
London
America
Hoover
Meat price study cited by industry official to Congress
R J Eggert, head of the American Meat Institute, told Congress that Mrs Housewife pays over ceiling prices in eight of ten purchases. He based the claim on a survey by independent market research agencies in 11 cities. All
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R. J. Eggert
American Meat Institute
Congress
Eggert
Meat Overcharges Hit Households in Survey Findings
A survey shows widespread price gouging in meat sales with 83 percent of stores charging over the ceiling on some cuts and averages of 20 percent over, equating to an extra $1.20 for every $1 spent. Bowles urged restraint and announced subsidy adjustments and small price hikes on beef pork lamb veal and mutton.
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Bowles
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Basil Stultz
George B. Moore
James Stultz
Howard E. Henley
Gouldie Kyser
Bayard Baker
A. J. Carr
Hancock
Shelby
Henry
Cancer Fund
Young People’s Rally
Wesleyan Methodist Churches
Shelbyville
Carry
Howard-Ray
Robert L. Howard
Ruth Anna Ray
Carthage
Wesleyan Parsonage
Carl Stevens
Grace Ray
East Street
Nelle Hill
Lafalot Club
Mae Moore
Bess Baker
The
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Wesleyan Methodist Church
Ezra Rumple
Flo Lineback
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Mildred Nigh
Inez Binford
Thekla Stinger
Walter Mann
Thelma Cooper
Alice Macy
O. J. Gardner
Charles Pearson
Pearson
Ruby McGeorge
Herbert Watkins
Middletown
James McGeorge
Harry Cooper
Pendleton
John Rodgers
George
Peter Grant
Uncle Sam
Edgar V. Ruby
Leslie Hall
Straughn
Frieda Chappell
Talma Hoff
Austin Davis
Manilla
David Binford
Mae Terhune
Carolyn
Sam Penrod
Anderson
James Terhune
Vernon Fraze
Carole
Roscoe Brown
Knightstown
Arlis Lukens
Indianapolis
Leon Cook
Vandalia
Jesse Kizer
Cook
Ray Buchanan
Edward Springer
James Crews
Flora
Edward Klingstein
Henry L. Stinger
George Jackson
Evelyn
W. S. Matthews
Raleigh
Bert Holwell
Mays
Charles Bever
Greenfield
Carl Braden
Edward Jackson
Larry
Near Carthage
H. E. Henley Jr
Max Haas
Cincinnati
Roy Herkless
A. B. Thompson
Claude Pearson
H. T. Beher
O. C. McCarty
Wallace Cook
Purdue
Faye H. Wylie
Rush County
Rushville
Post
OPA
W. W. Zike
Hatchery
Morristown, Ind
Mr. Farmer
Indiana
Bayshack Fertilizer Co
Deskripper Packing Company
Carthage, Indiana
Lettler
Service
Company OF Indiana, Inc
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