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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1940
Page
6
The search for a yearling deer for a Spencer Tracy film went 10 900 miles with two assistants returning empty handed. The deer must be hand raised bottle fed and not camera shy as a starlet potential.
Gary Indiana February 6. Mrs J E Anderson 24 telephoned the fire department gas inhalator squad for help as her sister Mrs Ed Johnson 29 and the sister's maid were overcome while washing clothes. The squad revived Mrs Johnson the maid and Mrs Anderson who had aided the other two.
A vintage notice offers a transfer pattern for decorative lazy daisy flowers with French knot centers. It includes a 15 by 15 inch motif and multiple small stitch motifs with instructions to request by sending ten cents to Winchester Evening Star Household Arts Dept. at 259 W 14th Street New York NY.
A retro feature contrasts stagecoach stories with gunfights, inviting readers to hear excitement from frontier days. The brief emphasizes rough justice, travel hardship, and frontier bravado through vivid anecdotes and locals’ recollections.
Republicans plan extensive Lincoln birthday broadcasts from Feb 6 with Hoover from Omaha on NBC Dewey from Portland on CBS Barton and Farley among speakers. The piece lists programs and times across NBC CBS and MBS networks and notes pre Lincoln day specials and upcoming notables.
Two women in Wisconsin Rapids watched from their home as burglars carried out one of six robberies. They attempted to telephone the store owner to report the heist but could not wake him, delaying police notification until morning.
In Dubuque Iowa on February 6 William H Craft a railroad switchman who had 30 years of incident free service broke his ankle when a co worker stepped on his foot while he was changing his shoes in a locker room He will be away from work six weeks.
The report lists present and past rainfall with 24 hour, February to date, and year to date totals. It then provides monthly average precipitation in inches based on 1913 to 1939, and the 27 year average annual rainfall of 35.53 inches. Courtesy from Winchester Research Laboratory.
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