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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1940
Page
6
The Winchester Evening Star announces a 1941 Household Budget Booklet for household financial planning. It includes monthly accounting pages, typical budgets, thrift tips, and guidance on savings and insurance, printed on durable paper for pencil or ink, priced at ten cents plus postage.
Present and past rainfall data show December to date 2.43 inches, year to date 34.34 inches, and an average annual rainfall of 35.53 inches. Monthly averages are given for January through December, based on a 27 year period and compiled by Winchester Research Laboratory.
A Kansas City report notes Mrs Mura describing holiday egg nog and remarking on a “powerful waste” of fine ingredients. The text then references the Trapist monastic order, founded in 1098 at La Trappe France, with three US monasteries listed as La Trappe Gethsemane Ky Our Lady of the Valley Cumberland RI and New Melleray near Dubuque IA.
Fort Meade staff begin taking charge of 4500 draftees slated to arrive January 9 through 31 as 38 new buildings near completion. Training for reception center staffs at Fort Meade and New Cumberland proceeds, with 35 officers and 32 enlisted men arriving for prep. Trainees will move in starting the night of January 9.
The Sun reported that three of six Pan American Airways transoceanic flying boats were sold to the British government for $1,000,000 each. The U.S. government approved the deal and a British flight crew is en route to the United States for instruction in operating the planes.
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