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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1941
Page
8
A recipe by Dorothy W. Lewis, home economist, Appalachian Apple Service, for a salad mold with celery, apples, beets, and mayonnaise served on crisp lettuce. Also notes the White House enlargement during Theodore Roosevelt's 1902 administration.
The Winchester Evening Star advertises The Household Budget, a 1941 booklet by Frederic J. Haskin's Information Bureau. It promises practical budgets for all income levels with monthly, ready to use records printed on special paper, and urges readers to order by mailing ten cents postpaid. The offer invites readers to enclose a dime for a copy.
The article states that the United States experiences about 100 tornadoes each year on average. This estimate reflects typical regional activity without citing specific contributing factors or dates.
Realty transfers show multiple deeds in Winchester and surrounding areas. Transfers include Glaize heirs to Fannie Burgess for 16 Shirley Street, Johnson to Glaize parties on Berryville Pike, and several parcels on East Gerrard Street Miller Street and South Washington Street with nominal sums and nominal or no consideration. Other entries name Hattie Taylor to Slonaker, Bayliss to Novick, Marshall for the city to Benham, Benham to Robinson, Hamman to Brown and related parcels with dates not specified.
Richmond may see at least 5 000 soldiers each weekend as Camp Lee trains troops. J H Winfrey who led the war camp community service during World War I spoke at a meeting of social and welfare agencies in Richmond Petersburg Hopewell and nearby counties convened by Colonel Robert T Barton Jr chairman of the regional defense council to map a recreational program.
A New York divorce trial features headlines about a wife who allegedly gained weight and lost appeal. The ad promotes Kruschen Salts as a fat loss solution with daily use, dietary changes, a 4 week bottle, and a satisfaction guarantee.
The 1940 census finds the largest congressional district has 914,053 residents in Illinois, while New York’s 12th district holds 70, a 13 fold gap. The average per seat is 301,164. many districts are close to this, with Nevada, Delaware, and Wyoming each guaranteed one seat.
The Star notes delays as deadlines vary by time zones with 9 PM in London 10 PM in Berlin Rome 11 PM in Alexandria and Bucharest. The item highlights the challenge of synchronized editions amid shifting local times.
A collection of soup making notes detailing brown and white stocks, clear broth clarification, and methods for tomato bouillon cream of mushroom soup clam chowder Norfolk style potato soup. Includes ingredients, steps, and tips like saving vegetable scraps and using leftover bones for stock.
Pattern 6896 from Household Arts Inc shows a four strand rug crochet design resembling a chrysanthemum. It provides instructions, stitch diagrams, materials, and color schemes and offers to send the pattern for ten cents to Winchester Dept 259 W 14th Street New York NY.
A recipe note outlines filling with prunes and sugar, sealing in a pastry, baking until crust browns, then topping with meringue. The dish is finished by returning to a slow oven to brown the meringue for serving.
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