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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1940
Page
11
Recipe details a chocolate fudge loaf with Seven Minute Frosting. Ingredients include cake flour sugar unsweetened chocolate egg butter and milk with steps to cream blend and bake 325 degrees for one hour. Frosting uses egg whites sugar water corn syrup heated seven minutes then chocolate drizzle.
An old lace cookie recipe promises novelty through a long history of lace motifs in fashion. The instructions describe melting butter, mixing oats, sugar, salt, baking powder, an egg, and almond extract, then dropping teaspoonfuls onto a sheet to bake.
An old advertisement promotes FASTEETH powder to stabilize dentures and reduce odor. The second item is a legal notice by Charles H. Hildebrandt as guardian for Betty Josephine Hildebrandt of Baltimore, seeking court approval to transfer funds from Virginia to Maryland from a Frederick County estate sale.
Notice to shareholders of the Union Bank of Winchester Virginia that the annual meeting will be held at the bank’s address 101 N. Loudoun Street Winchester on Thursday April 25 1940 from 1 to 12 a m for election of directors and other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournments thereof.
A brief notice notes Evelyn 8s Early serving as Home Service Representative for the Northern Virginia Power Company. The text indicates a procedure for greasing a cookie sheet and baking at 350 degrees for about five minutes, then removing the cookies while warm.
Real Estate Analysis Inc led by Roy Wenzlick predicts a sharp increase in building costs in the very early 1940s. In Better Homes and Gardens May issue he warns of opportunities in the next six months before prices and financing tighten. He cites five factors: prices, fiber costs, site costs, financing rates, and rent increases.
Portland police investigate a handprinted $20 check drawn on a non existent Boston School Thrush Company. The signer payee and endorser shared names and the clerk who received the check gave $9 in change. The incident highlights a new form of counterfeit or spoofed payment.
In Los Angeles on April 18 juror Patrick C. Foley felt something run up his leg. He loosened his belt and pulled out a mouse from his trousers. The bailiff killed the mouse and the murder trial continued.
State Senator Aubrey G. Weav er of Front Royal said the State Highway Department has reached an agreement with the Norfolk and Western and the Southern railways on rights of way for bridges over the Shenandoah at Riverton. Bids for new highway approaches and bridges will be invited in about six weeks after tests and plans are completed.
An advertisement urges readers to buy GA SANATIVE LOTION at drugstores in Virginia to treat scabies. It promises relief from itching and embarrassment with a satisfaction or money back guarantee.
The Richmond News Leader recalls the 1917 18 winter and spring in Central Virginia noting a cold period followed by a record hot summer with 107 degrees on Chimborazo Hill. The piece asks if history will repeat itself this coming summer.
A recipe for serving half an English muffin toasted and buttered topped with a mixture of potted ham and chopped stuffed olives. Mushrooms are sautéed in butter, combined with white sauce, spooned over the muffins and dusted with paprika.
The instructions describe beating two egg whites into meringue then folding in two tablespoons powdered sugar and finely chopped dates. The mixture is piled on sponge cake squares and browned in a hot oven for a light date flavored dessert.
Soak crumbled bread in milk then add beaten yolks. Season and fold in beaten whites. Melt a tablespoon of butter in an omelet pan. Pour in the egg mixture and cook like other omelets.
Final rites for the late Mrs Katharine Estelle Miller of Inwood were conducted Tuesday by the Rev William Obaugh and Rev J Goode. Interment was in Mount Hebron. A large assemblage of friends and relatives attended. Mrs Miller was the wife of Robert Miller Jr whose mother died three weeks ago.
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