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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1939
Page
3
The Carthage Citizen lists editor ED E Bly and notes weekly publication from Carthage Indiana. Subscriptions run 1.65 per year with Canada at 2.00, six months 0.75, three months 0.60, and it is entered as second class mail matter at the Carthage post office.
Readers clash over obituary wording and missing names as a Kansas widow sues for an epitaph claim. The piece laments editors mistakes and warted local scandal, arguing editors deserve credit for what they withhold and publish.
The remark frames a historical view that the New Deal approach collects about one dollar but expends around two, illustrating a period of fiscal expansion and deficit spending as policy aims to stimulate recovery.
Community members travel to Indianapolis Chicago Greenfield and New Castle for visits shopping and clubs. Family events include a wedding at the Methodist parsonage and a hospital shower. One item notes Roosevelt era emergency relief spending surpassing 11 billion dollars since 1935.
Thanksgiving radio schedule lists Major Bowes, Jim McWilliams, and Louis Masson on CBS with shows from Taunton and Buffalo. Colleagues Abbott and Costello, Duke Ellington, Yale song, and Maxine Bloom in NBC and CBS programs run through Nov 28. Public affairs, music and drama feature varied networks.
In South Bend the Notre Dame Fighting Irish edged Northwestern 7 to 0 as a late scoring march broke the game open. McGurn, Northwestern back, busted through the Notre Dame line for 9 yards before the decisive score.
The library received Book Week gifts from Mr and Mrs Howard E Hensley featuring Escape by Ethel Vance and Each to the Other by Christopher La Forge. Students voted Bear of Blue River by Charles Major first and Wizard of Oz by Baum second. Thanksgiving returns extended to the following Saturday.
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