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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1939
Page
4
The Carthage Citizen highlights the 1939 New York World's Fair with its modern exhibits and promises of progress. It cites 4-H enrollment reaching 1,286,029 in 74,494 clubs in 1938, marking broad youth participation and "learn by doing" projects across farming and home skills.
Preliminary figures show gross income tax receipts for the first quarter of 1939 running 22 percent ahead of the same period a year earlier. Clarence A. Jackson, director of the tax division, cites two main factors: improving business conditions since last April and taxpayers paying taxes promptly.
The W F M S of Carthage Methodist Church led Sunday morning worship with Mrs Frederika Wahls of Rushville addressing missionary work. Officers Mrs Sarah Stager and Mrs Arthur White presided and a bank offering was taken for further missionary work.
A financial summary shows receipts and disbursements with a net operating loss of 60.57 and cash on hand 57.85 on April 20 1939. The page also lists CBS NBC and Lux Radio Theater schedules from April 27 to May 3 1939 with program details and guest stars.
In modern biographies authors frame figures like Lincoln and Washington in paradoxical light, often whitewashing former ideals and presenting them as flawed. The piece notes this trend toward fiction and opinion over strict history, urging readers to discern imagination from fact. R. H. M. cites Philip Guedalla on biography as bounded by history and fiction.
Mrs. R. H. Myers with Bobbie and Rosalie returned Friday from Connersville where they visited Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Myers. It will be about ten days before the cast can be removed from Mrs. Myers foot.
Avery Rawls reports a two day Key West tour with detailed notes on sites and people seen. He describes bridges and monuments from the 1935 hurricane era, visits to La Concha hotel, Navy and Army forts, and local commerce, then recounts travels to Aiken and Hollywood with family, friends, and memories concluding with a note that this is THE END.
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