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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1934
Page
4
A Tunisian family joins the World’s Fair in Chicago opening May 26, living in a Tunisian village on the Street of Villages. Fifteen reproductions of distant life offer a world tour in a day. Eleven villages cluster near the Midway from the 1933 layout. Record crowds found the fair complete and new on opening day.
A long list of visits and travels across towns including Rockville Morristown Ogden Indianapolis and Richmond. The notes mention funerals graduation at DePauw University and commencement events. Shared family visits and social calls feature with multiple Abilene and Rushville residents named alongside local clergy and merchants.
Advice on planning brooding range rotation years ahead, improving orchard maintenance with scraping and banding, keeping plows level for even furrows, choosing potato varieties for late crops, and maintaining equipment like rolling coulter and jointer. Cautions against low quality eggs and overweight tractor oil issues.
More than 235000 people attended the new World's Fair during its first weekend in Chicago. On opening day 154663 visitors surpassed last year by 84988, with 81241 on Sunday, while President Roosevelt opened the Exposition via motion pictures and lit the grounds. Mrs. Roosevelt inaugurated the new fountain as lights and color dominated the night, with dramatic lighting and the Sky Ride outlined in neon. The Street of Villages offered tours of fifteen foreign lands, including Ireland Spain Tunisia and Italy, with free entertainment from concerts to theater and exhibits.
Mr C A Norris has accepted a position with C H Tompkins & Co of Rushville as their Ford salesman in this territory. Work on oiling the streets began Wednesday afternoon. No doubt but that all housewives will have the front doors locked for the next few days. Messrs Earl Herkless and Chas Weber have returned from a trip to Chattanooga Tennessee and other states. Places visited included Lookout Mountain Mussell Shoals and Mammoth Cave.
Attorney Wm. C. Ewing of Knightstown was transacting business here and at Rushville Friday. Elmer Wilkinson is working at Hamilton's barber shop this week. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hamilton are taking a vacation.
Mr and Mrs Stanley Murray were guests of Judge and Mrs W J Henley last Tuesday. Cyril Tetrick an employee is home this week suffering poisoning from the waist down. Clark Gause had George Kulline and daughter Mary Ann of Indianapolis for Sunday evening dinner guests. Dr Edgar Allen Hawk age 55 a prominent physician of New Palestine died Tuesday night after a long illness.
The report notes a 57 year old Central South Carolina apple tree yielding 50 bushels in 1933. It cites the New York state college of agriculture as the top feeder of agricultural students in the nation. England imposes a 50 cent per bushel duty on US apples, while Canada ships fruit tax free. It also compares agricultural employment shares: about one fourth in the United States, one half in Italy, one third in Germany, and two fifths in France and Ireland.
A terse exchange hints at a death described as throat trouble but implied to be a hanging, suggesting a scandalous or sensational incident referenced in a gossip context. The brief dialogue underscores rumors around a father figure's demise.
Notice states an executor has been appointed by the Rush County Circuit Court to administer the estate of De Munden late of the county who is deceased. The executor Henry F. Addison is named and the date June 13, 1934 is given with Dale Fisher clerk and attorneys Gary and Bohannon noted.
Rev and Mrs L E Addington of Westfield spent Monday with Mr and Mrs Earl Nowotne. Mr and Mrs Robert McClarnon near Greenfield welcomed a baby boy James Robert born June 1. Grandson of Mr and Mrs John Butler. Mr and Mrs Harry O Pitts visited Bloomington last Sunday. Mr and Mrs Roy Herkless and daughter Mrs Donald Stoten attended the Southern Indiana Retail Coal Dealer's convention at the Darborn County Club near Aurora Tuesday. About two hundred retail dealers attended. A bountiful lunch was served at noon.
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