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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 28, 1937

Page

7

Fruit Men Form Six State Regional Fruit Growers Group

The Middle Atlantic Fruit Growers Conference is organized to unite growers from six states for mutual benefit. They plan meetings January 4 and 5 in Washington with goals to influence federal policy, transportation rates, disease control, and government aid.

Martinsburg W. Va Aetia Washington W. Miller, Jr Paw Paw Middle Atlantic West Virginia Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia Delaware New Jeresy C. E. Bryan Havre de Grace

Rainfall Totals and Averages at Winchester Research Lab

Present and past rainfall show none in the last 24 hours ending 5 p m yesterday. December to date 20 inches year to date 48.54 inches. Average monthly rainfall from 1913 to 1936 lists Jan 2.46 Feb 1.97 March 3.93 April 3.07 May 3.65 June 3.63 July 3.35 Aug 3.59 Sept 2.37 Oct 2.91 Nov 2.31 Dec 2.40. Annual average rainfall over 24 years at Winchester Research Lab is 34.74 inches.

Winchester Research Laboratory

Will Rogers Recalls Poem Copying at Newsroom

A humorous reminiscence recounts poets who mail pieces claiming authorship while editors catching such fakes. One man hands a poem signed by him. the editor praises it and pretends to meet the real author, noting the irony of shaking hands with a famed poet like Longfellow in 1928.

Willie Wadsworth Longfellow American News Features, Inc

New Almanac Promises Dime Readers Guide to Many Facts

The Winchester Evening Star advertises Uncle Sam's Almanac 1938 as a junior encyclopedia answering many questions from wood cord measurement to hunting licenses and stamp flirt language. Readers are urged to send advance orders with ten cents per copy, listing names and addresses for friends or relatives.

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Mail to Washington D C. This fragment appears to be an address line directing correspondence to a person or office in Washington. It lacks dates or events but indicates a routing instruction for a mail item.

Noted Sire Added To State List

The Middleburg Chronicle reports Inverness Farm owner Leslie E. Keiffer sold Claptrap to Shawnee Manor in Winchester after years of racing success. Claptrap, a 1923 bay sired by Fairplay out of Catalpa, has produced multiple winners and is expected to stand for race, show, and hunter prospects at Shawnee Manor under C Worthington Lowe with four mares in foal to other stallions.

Middleburg Chronicle Stacy B. Lloyd, Jr Leslie E. Keiffer Inverness Farm Monktown Maryland Inverness Claptrap Keiffer Virginia Shawnee Manor Winchester Fairplay Catalpa Tracery England Crusader Bungalow Golden Tip Sisko Polle Maisonette Clapping Jane Claque Peppery C. Worthington Lowe Shawnee Mr. Lowe Woodcraft Time Maker Messenger Mud

Admiral Travels On Special Train For Florida Campaign

War Admiral champion of the three year olds leaves Baltimore on a special train from Berlin Maryland with Samuel D. Riddle's stable to Wilmington Delaware. The group will join a Miami bound passenger train for a winter campaign aiming at the $50 000 Widener Challenge Cup at Hialeah Park in Florida.

Berlin War Admiral Florida Samuel D. Riddle Wilmington Del Miami Hialeah Park Pimlico

TVA Wage Boost For 8000 Workers In 40 Hour Week

The Tennessee Valley Authority announced a new wage and hour schedule for 8 000 skilled and un skilled workers providing a maximum 40 hour week with overtime pay and an approximate increase of five per cent in wages.

Knoxville Tenn The Tennessee Valley Authority

Barbara Bell Pattern No 1435 B Fall and Winter Dress

Barbara Bell Pattern No 1435 B offers a slim fitted frock with long front darts and puff sleeves designed for sizes 12 to 20 with busts 30 to 40. Instructions note fabric yardage for size 14 and color options in rayon, wool, satin, linen and self fabric with collar and cuff sets. Send fifteen cents for the Barbara Bell Fall and Winter Pattern Book.

Barbara Bell

New Year Poem by Grace England Turner

The poem speaks of starting a new year with courage faith and hope. It contrasts tears and smiles as the traveler recalls the year ending and faces the year ahead. The speaker urges keeping songs and dreams despite darkness and notes sunshine’s shadows and rose’s thorns while greeting the new year with grace.

Lake Grace England Turner

Evening Star Delivery Help in Winchester

Notice advises readers to call POSTAL TELEGRAPH for prompt delivery of the Evening Star in Winchester with no charge for the service.

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Japanese Land Forces On Island Near Hongkong

Reports from Macao say a Japanese cruiser shelled Wongkam island near Hongkong. About 200 Japanese sailors landed from a cruiser and two destroyers. Wongkam lies across the Canton River Estuary from Hongkong. Hongkong prohibits wireless use by merchant ships, suspected aimed at Japanese vessels.

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Daily crossword puzzle across and down clues

Crossword puzzle clues list with numerous definitions across many lines including figures like 1 27 5 29 10 12 31 8 and strange trailing cipher text. It mixes wordplay on forms of mischief and titles with a long string of seemingly corrupted entries and an answer line referencing a prior puzzle.

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