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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1940
Page
2
Article discusses mass analysis and air masses in weather forecasting, noting German methods and censorship of weather reports. It mentions the polar-front approach, limitations on day-specific forecasts, and British censorship implications during wartime. Also includes brief family notices thanking friends and relatives.
Dewitt Mackenzie reports Berlin signals no clear invasion date yet. Hitler aims to smash British morale, blockade shipping, and force submission, possibly via Gibraltar disruption and Spain cooperation. Lord Halifax vows to crush Hitlerism and defend Britain to the end.
Winchester Frederick County Red Cross will open a dressings room Tuesday at 7 30 pm with three weekly classes. Sessions run Wednesday 9 30 am to 12 30 pm and Friday 2 00 pm to 5 00 pm. A 17000 dressings quota targets shipment in about seven weeks.
Advertisement for a baby robe pattern 6752 offered by Winchester Evening Star. Includes instructions illustrations stitches materials needed and a photo. Request pattern by mailing ten cents to the Household Arts Dept New York address with name address and pattern number.
The famous I Want You For The United States Army poster by James Montgomery Flagg, a key recruiting image from 1917 18, is recalled in 1940 with Flagg's consent. The poster has been re printed in six colors and placed at recruiting stations and prominent spots nationwide to boost the current Army expansion approved by Congress. Flagg, once New York state military artist, created forty five posters during World War I.
A New York report questions Lord Haw Haw's true identity and birthplace. Columbia University expert Dr. Harry Lee Smith Jr suspects the broadcaster is a native English speaker from southern England with German influences, rather than William Joyce.
Local notes from St David s Church list July 22 visitors including Mrs Bessie Burner and daughter Reatha from near Vaucluse visiting sister Mrs Dollie Galladay. Redeemer Tobias Clem serves as day janitor at Winchester Hospital and Rev Norman Uphouse hosts Bible School camp.
Only three American colleges William and Mary Harvard and Yale predate the University of Havana established in Cuba making it a long standing institution in the region.
Answers to the printed test questions include topics on Theodore Roosevelt World War I Democrat Chicago six teen six is dating sixth 1932 Missouri and the phrase I and it Samuel proper meaning.
Lieut. Gen. Sir Alan Brooke aged 56, commander of the 2nd British Expeditionary Force in France, is appointed C in C of British home forces replacing Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside who faced heavy criticism.
Allis-Chalmers launches an education drive to teach proper use of the All-Crop Harvester with three rules: don’t harvest too soon, use the correct equipment, and store seed in good ventilation. The program urges wait for full ripening to improve seed quality and weight, favors direct harvesting when possible, and warns against weedy patches and poor storage.
A copy of The Virginia Harmony, printed in Winchester around 1836, has been located in the Congregational Library in Washington. The volume ties to J. P. Carrell of Lebanon and includes tunes in shaped notes with preface on sacred music and singing’s purpose.
Elmer M. Steele of Stephens City Virginia a retired dentist serves on the board of the Commercial and Savings Bank. Edward Ashby Humston eighty three year old native of Kentucky is a retired physician and farmer and a director of the Commercial and Savings Bank and the United States Loan and Deposit Bank Campbellsburg Kentucky.
In loving remembrance of Earl H Hockman who died one year ago today the mother Hattie Hockman speaks of missing his dear little hands day and night. The message expresses enduring grief and yearning for his presence.
A memorial tribute dated July 22 honors Mrs H A Hinton who passed away years ago. Friends praise her as a devoted mother and loyal, generous worker, describing her as one in a million and recalling her wise judgment. By her children.
Albanian feudists follow the Law of Lek allowing a truce period during which a feudist will not be shot if he visits town hosts a party or gathers crops. The custom governs how feuds are paused for social and economic activity within communities.
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