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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1940
Page
6
Time magazine began with its first issue published on March 3 1923. Bunyan’s last words as he lay dying in 1688 were "Take me, for I come to Thee."
The Baptist Church in Sunland is picketed by a man seeding as the Devil with a sign about Anderson’s program. Rev. John B. Speed notes record crowds passing the line to revival services led by Evangelist Harry Anderson. William Doak acts as the Devil.
St. Davids Church area reports visitors and travel. Harry McClanahan and family from Maryland spent time with Mr. and Mrs. Robert McClanahan. Tobias Clem left for Winchester to work for Carl Golladay during vacation. Several locals and visitors listed with visits and travels to Columbus, Ohio and Canada, plus illnesses and improved conditions noted for Mrs. H. E. Walter and Mr. Melvin Waters and family.
Proclaims a Raphael Madonna needlepoint transfer pattern 99 by 121/4 inches with color chart and stitch illustration. Requests ten cents and a plain typed NAME ADDRESS and PATTERN NUMBER to Winchester Dept. 259 W 14th Street New York NY.
The report lists present rainfall none in the last 24 hours and Aug to date .74 inches, year to date 24.61 inches. It provides 27 year averages from 1913 to 1939 for each month, totaling an average annual rainfall of 35.53 inches, with statistics courtesy of Winchester Research Laboratory.
By virtue of a distress warrant in the case H B Garber v J Holmes Spence, a public auction will offer for sale August 20 1940 at 10 AM at the former Spence store room Amherst Street Ext'd. items include a cash register, iron safe, desk chairs adding machine plow points stock tonic trucks and assorted articles with cash terms. City Sergeant Taylor L Barr conducts the sale.
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