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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1949
Page
6
Valentine's Day gifts are discussed with perfume as a popular option. The piece notes gift ideas for women, including naming trends and shopper habits, warning against mismatching scents to a recipient's personality.
A fashion piece details how different men profiles influence perfume choices. It notes meek husbands buy affordable scents for wives, outdoor men seek value with floral scents, artistic youths prefer ballet or terpsichore inspired notes, and dapper gentlemen lean toward bold, heady colognes.
Principal Paul Beable reports Stephens City school students donated 84.5 dollars to the March of Dimes campaign. He also notes 24 dollars from students for the tuberculosis association drive.
In Peiping crowds saw bazookas and other American weapons captured from defeated nationalists displayed by communist forces. The mood was solemn and curious as the city came under a joint communist nationalist administration after the Jan. 22 peace agreement.
The report lists 36 year monthly averages in inches from 1913 to 1948. January 2.47, February 1.92, March 2.91, April 3.07, May 3.68, June 3.88, July 3.81, August 3.82, September 2.58, October 3.34, November 2.50, December 2.43. Present and past rainfall totals for 24 hours ending 7 a.m. show January rainfall to date at 3.73 inches.
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