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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1940
Page
13
A regional column blends New England baked beans with Boston brown bread recipes and decaffeinated coffee as a 1940s party snippet. It notes serving methods, kitchen tips, and a loaf mold steaming guide, plus local social notes about visitors and a birthday celebration.
An ad claims FASTEETH powder keeps upper or lower plates firm, preventing rocking sliding or slipping. It vents that the alkaline formula has no sour taste and helps control plate odor, promising easy use and availability at drug stores.
Weekend and weeklong visits feature several families and individuals including Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Weirich of Annapolis with two sons visiting in Middletown, Mrs. Annie Henretty returning from Richmond, and multiple relatives seen in Edinburg Winchester Strasburg Martinsburg and Lebanon Church communities.
Brush Creek reports Mrs. Elizabeth DeHaven visiting near Pleasant Valley U B Church. Families gather at Mrs. Ruth Kerns home in Siler with several relatives from Gerrardstown Martinsburg Hagerstown and more. A community cleanup and fence installation planned at the old Brannon family graveyard for April 27 with helpers welcome.
Rev Do Clarke and Mrs Newton Clarke visited friends here Saturday afternoon. Herbert Fisher, Mrs Raymon Boden and daughter Betty spent the weekend in Washington. Ward Purcell and Patricia of Ridgeway visited relatives here recently. Wesley Brill and daughter Mary Jane with Nellie Davis and Dick Brill were guests of Mrs Smith in Purcellville. Mrs S J Swimley spent Monday with sister in Winchester.
Virgil Burkhart visited sister Ersula Bly at Relief. Boyd Unger spoke with residents Tuesday. Julian Fawcett, improving after Memorial Hospital stay, writes again. Irene Snapp, Ethel Snapp, Vertie Burkhart and children visited Bobbie Fawcett last Monday. Rain has delayed spraying and plowing in the area.
Rochester message explains a new sherbet bowl for ice cream firms featuring four scoops of sherbet in different flavors with a rose as a garnish. Hennerich notes the rose shows the dish and a sherbet bowl will debut at soda fountains this summer.
Police Judge James F. Nangle fined a St Louis man fifty dollars for roughing his wife after she stepped from a vehicle during an argument. The defendant pleaded guilty to careless driving claiming the blow was accidental during the quarrel.
In Tientsin on April 24 Americans seeking to pass the Japanese blockade at the British and French concessions must alight from their cars and bow to Japanese sentries. The measure underscores the tense wartime control of the area and the humiliating demands placed on foreign travelers.
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