Carthage Citizen Publisher and Schedules
The Carthage Citizen, edited by ED E. Bly, is published weekly in Carthage Indiana. Subscription rates are $1.50 per year, $2.00 Canada, six months 75 cents, three months 50 cents. It is entered at the Carthage post office as second class mail matter.
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Indiana
Canada
NBC
Los Angeles
San Francisco
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Kate Smith
Brian Aherne
CBS
Professor Quiz
Washington
March Sky Parade and Political Jibes Roil Local Readers
The piece notes a rare planetary parade after sunset featuring Jupiter Venus Saturn Mars and Mercury likely visible for two weeks as a once in a hundred years event. It also captures local chatter critiquing parents politicians movie stars and fashion with quips from Miss Annie Oldspinster Grandpappy Grump Squire Sage Cousin Jed and shy Aunt Lucy amid a high pitched campaign season backdrop.
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Jupiter
Venus
Saturn
Mars
Mercury
Squire Sage
Local Social and Radio Listings Span Weekend Activities
Charlottesville and area residents host visitors from Crawfordsville Greenfield and Indianapolis. Shown are showers, weddings, hospital stays, farm moves, and a full slate of radio programs and NBC CBS broadcasts for March 2 to March 7 1940, with notable names and locales across Indiana Ohio and California.
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Mary Martin
Broadway
Daddy
NBC
Dick Powell
Fanny
Indiana gavels swing at national committee meeting
Grace B Reyn olds of Cambridge City brought two Indiana made gavels to the Republican National Committee meeting where John D. M. Hamilton presided. The Hoosier gavels ended noise and helped restore order as the national convention date and place were set. The piece notes Dr. W. R. Phillips of Orange crafted them from local timber. The column also reports Navy budget cuts and ongoing economy drives in Congress aimed at avoiding higher taxes and debt.
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Grace B. Reynolds
Cambridge City
Indiana
Washington
John D. M. Hamilton
W. R. Phillips
Orange
Ind
Phillips
Rush
Fayette County
Hamilton
House
Navy Department
Roosevelt
Naval Appropriations Subcommittee
Arlington Happenings In Local Social Notes
Arlington residents share visits and events across surrounding towns. Pedestrian updates include gatherings at Gwynneville church, visits to Indianapolis Rushville and Nashville areas, hospital news, birthday celebrations, and club meetings with Bridge and rock games at local homes.
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Lowell Hutchinson
Lee Mitchell
Denning Nelson
Mildred Hyatt
Eston Macy
Russell Northam
Owen Long
Weldon
Cherry
Gwynneville Christian Church
Jesse Stout
Virginia
Norma Alsmean
Marcella Downey
Bernedine Macy
Indianapolis
Mark Stout
Charles Patrick
Judy
Bert Patrick
Rock Lane
Clara Ross
Muncie
Robert Wilder
Rushville
Merle Stout
Arlington
Harry Steele
Inlow Clinic
Shelbyville
Workers strike totals exceed one billion in seven years
The estimated number of workers involved in strikes over the last seven years is 1,190,000,000, compared with 443,000 in the seven years from 1923 to 1929. More than 80 percent of the 525,000 business corporations are privately owned with no securities to sell.
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Rush Hughes
NBC
New York
Queens
Johnny
Nbc-Red
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
CBS
Foreign Legion
Campbell
New Orleans
Sam Houston Jones
James A. Noe
Jones
Earl K. Long
Noe
Long
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Economic declines hit factory payrolls and national income
In the last seven years factory pay rolls fell 24 percent, industrial production 21 percent, and national income 88 percent.
Agencies Formed After the New Deal Now House Most Federal Spending
A survey shows more than half of federal expenditures go to agencies and functions created after the New Deal era. The data highlights how government priorities shifted with new departments and programs since the 1930s.
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