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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1940
Page
6
Winchester Evening Star offers a transfer pattern Pat 6633 featuring 12 motifs of blue birds and lilacs for linens. Includes stitch illustrations materials and color schemes. to obtain, send ten cents to Household Arts Dept 259 W 14th St New York NY with name and address and pattern number.
South Boston readies for the National Tobacco Festival on September 5 and 6 with Tucker C. Watkins as president promising a queen announcement soon. Miss Mary Pickford, last year’s queen, is recalled as a film star. State Senator William M. Tuck chairs the organizing committee.
A poem argues that concession cannot bring peace and treaties fail while greed and hatred persist. It calls all peoples to unite across seas in prayer for peace and to work for humanity’s release before it is too late.
A lyrical plea pleads for universal peace. The speaker likens a dove to a divine messenger asking leaders to choose goodwill and end all wars, citing wounded world, torn nests, and muffled song as motives for lasting harmony.
Charles Sprague, a rural mail carrier, has spent 16 years ushering at community events. He has arranged to teach a class on the finer points of ushering at the local high school this fall.
Rainfall data for the period ending July 24 shows present and past totals. Year to date 20.62 inches and July-to-date 2.15 inches. Monthly averages for 1913 to 1939 list values from January to December, with July peaking at 8.59 inches and the year’s average rainfall 35.53 inches. Courtesy of Winchester Research Laboratory.
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