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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
12
Basic instructions for making two hats a calot and a beret in red white and blue. Pattern 6788 includes diagrams and stitches with materials list. Send ten cents and your name address and pattern number to Winchester Dept 259 W 14th Street New York NY.
After a stretch of extremely hot dry days a gentle several day rain refreshed gardens and crops in Apple Pie Ridge. Local residents, including Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Brown and daughter June, visited relatives and attended a funeral for Mr. John Reed. Nearby gatherings included visits to Hamilton and Charles Town relatives, a Fishers Hill outing, and a Winchester carnival.
Mr and Mrs Eldridge Lemby and their three children Dorothy June and John and Miss Maxie Galli are spending the week in Atlantic City.
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hour precipitation of .87 inches and August to date 3.56 inches with year to date 28.69 inches. The 27 year period from 1913 to 1939 yields monthly averages: January 2.56, February 2.04, March 2.90, April 3.23, May 3.53, June 3.79, July 3.59, August 3.69, September 3.19, October 2.85, December 39. Average annual rainfall in that period is 35.53 inches. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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