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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 28, 1940

Page

7

New Books Added to Handley Library Shelf

Handley Library lists new fiction titles including The Vanishing Virginian Invitation to Live Oliver Wiswell Last Train Out Sapphire and the Slave Girl Fame Is the Spur The Voyage Embezzled Heaven Ox Bow Incident For Whom the Bell Tolls Fielding's Folly The Stone of Chastity Non Fiction titles include I Chose Denmark Surgeon's Life The Country Editor I Rode with Stonewall How to Play with Your Child History of Music Westward from Rio Winston Churchill Psychiatry for the Curious Science Picture Parade All books listed may be borrowed from the Handley Library.

Rebecca Y. Williams Lloyd Douglas Oliver Wiswell Kenneth Ro E. Phillips Oppenheim Willa 5 Cather Howard Spring Charles Morgan Franz Werfel W. W Clark Ernest Hemingway Fielding Frances P. Keyes Margery Sharp Denmark Francis Hackett

Whistle Stuck On Big Four Locomotive Delays Police

Louisville reports a locomotive whistle stuck for 55 minutes after a valve failure. Police and newspaper phones swamped as the engine vented steam and disrupted local communications while crews worked to shut it off. Basil Zaharoff was knighted by George V for Allied services in World War I and honored by the French government.

Louisville Olk Basil Zaharoff A.K Zaharoff George V

Average annual rainfall data from Winchester research lab

Present and past rainfall figures cover 24 hours to date and year to date with monthly averages from January to December. The data, compiled over 27 years from 1913 to 1939, show an average annual rainfall of 35.53 inches and include present day measurements of 18 inches for the 24 hour period and 2.11 inches for the month.

Winchester Research Laboratory

Money Plentiful but Little Food in France

Frederick Hotchkiss, secretary of the U S Chamber of Commerce in France, says there is plenty of money in France but nothing to spend it on. He cites food as France’s main problem with fuel as a secondary issue and warns shortages will grow more acute over the next year and a half, echoing Spain’s postwar pattern.

Prospect Conn Frederick Hotchkiss United States Chamber of Commerce France Hotchkiss Spain

Relative importance of relative importance in Aberdeen case

Virgin Schense, 24, plans to use a license to marry Mary Dorothy Nelson, 23. The arrangement creates complex in-laws: Dorothy would be her sister’s daughter-in-law and her father-in-law’s sister-in-law. Virg il would become his stepmother’s brother-in-law and the brother-in-law of his own father.

Aberdeen Virgin Schense Mary Dorothy Nelson Epee Miss Nelster Schense Dorothy Virgil

Jiffy Knit Exclusive Baby Robe Pattern 6752

Dainty baby robe with matching cap pattern 6752 uses simple stitch in French Zephyr yarn. Includes instructions, illustrations, materials, and a photo. send ten cents to Winchester Dept 259 W 14th St New York NY with name address pattern number.

Patern Illustra Winchester Dept 14Th Street New York N.Y

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