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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1941
Page
6
A mix of health advice and quips on health worry and medical exams. A radio talk suggests balance in periodic checks and lifestyle changes, citing Osler about chronic disease. The piece then touches on conscripts, class and superiority, Eskimo beliefs about temper, and the nature of optimism in debt.
Reports say highly paid workers in a large military cantonment threaten to strike over contractor hiring non union workers. The dispute involves allegedly free American citizens who cannot be denied work and draft age laborers who protested wage and ideological terms amid conscription.
A reflective notice on the universal frustration of automotive repairs. It speaks to the common experience of waiting for a vehicle to be serviced, highlighting patience and the rhythms of modern life.
State Highway Commission maintenance workers prepare hundreds of miles of reflectORIZED yellow lines to mark no passing zones. Equipment that mixes glass beads with paint will be ready once weather allows application above 50 degrees. This line improves night visibility and aims to reduce accidents on curves and grades.
President Franklin D Roosevelt addressed the nation during the White House Correspondents Association dinner in Washington D C delivering a fireside chat. He pledged a continuous flow of ships food guns and slaves to Great Britain and other Axis fighting nations until total victory is won.
A soldier writes from Camp Shelby Mississippi about his 151st Infantry Band becoming a male choir with four part voices and a growing recreation program. He notes sports equipment, books, free movie showings, a wedding procession, inspections, and a forthcoming trip to Hattiesburg. He teases spring programs and radio network updates with a stream of entertainment and station notes.
Saturday crowds boost talk of a hitching square and sheds for twenty five teams to draw distant trade. Charles Nelson greeted friends at J O Nelson's hardware store. Roy Newby resigns as Urbana paper mill superintendent to lead a big Alton mill at $2000 yearly. Frank Brooks injured by straw collapse at the paper mill. John Butler brings in fine stock for Hill farm. Ross Parish injured at strawboard press. Julian Overman returns after illness. Knightstown canning factory burns. loss about 30000 with half insured. Eggs drop to 15 cents per dozen. Township dinner for teachers hosted by Jesse and Mrs Henley. Florence Parish assists at telephone exchange and music store. Thieves steal eleven hams and shoulders from Unger’s Morristown meat house. Floyd Gray breaks a bone cranking an automobile.
Faulty eyesight is linked to widespread failure as two million school children miss passing marks annually. The article notes a rise in reading demands since thirty years ago and mentions a jail delay due to a measles quarantine in Astoria. Navy scouting plan includes 48 airships of 250 feet with crews and armament for sub warfare.
Rev and Mrs W A Eckel longtime missionaries to Japan will speak at the Church of Nazarene Morristown from Friday through Sunday. Evening services start 7 30 p m with a Sunday morning service at 10 30 a m. The public is invited to attend these talks by the pair who have spent twenty five years abroad.
A brief classified item promotes paying for citizen ads with a promise of convincing results. It urges readers to try the ads to see benefits and returns. The notice emphasizes the value and effectiveness of placing advertisements in the citizen section.
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