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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1940
Page
6
A 72 by 90 inch cloth crocheted in two strands of string promises luxury and lasting value for homes and generations. Pattern 6748 includes instructions chart illustrations and stitches with required materials. Send ten cents to Winchester Dept 259 W 14th Street New York NY and include NAME ADDRESS and PATTERN NUMBER.
Spectators packed the Eastern shore town for the Miles River Yacht Club regatta as one of the largest fields in the season's water carnival. Ninety three events run over two days with sail and power divisions on separate courses amid crowded harbor, limited hotel space, and abundant spectator craft.
A 50 foot fall during a tightrope act killed Mrs Edith Dobbell 37 of Danville Illinois while 2000 spectators watched in Cumberland Maryland She died in hospital two hours after a slip caused her to lose balance Her husband Fred Dobbell saw the fall and noted she first performed here eight years ago She was part of the four Dobbell act and a six year old daughter travels with the show.
A 1000 watt FM transmitter for W2XOR, linked to WOR, opens in a downtown Manhattan skyscraper. It operates on 43.4 megacycles seven meter band with about 48 mile range, replacing the Carteret New York low power facility. The system reflects Major E H Armstrong’s superlative FM effort gaining public attention in the New York area.
Henry Hyde located a sow and nine piglets buried in a straw stack that had concealed a small shed during threshing. The sow had become imprisoned two weeks earlier, producing the litter while trapped.
Present and past rainfall data show none for 24 hours ending a.m. and August to date. Year to date 23.87 inches. Monthly averages list values for January through December with a total average annual rainfall of 35.53 inches over 27 years. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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