Today is “Jewish Day” which is the beginning of “Foreigner’s Week” when advertisements will be placed in newspapers in the native languages of the foreign-speaking element, in a final effort to enumerate all those who have not as yet been counted in the present census drive, according to a statement made by Edward F. Corsi, supervisor of the Twenty-third Census District.
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