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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1940
Page
6
Judge J. Henderson accepted John 86's guilty plea to stealing seven pigs. He sentenced him to fifteen days in the county jail but postponed serving time until cooler weather due to extreme heat and lack of air conditioning in the jail.
Pattern 6660 offers transfer designs of three 114 and two % inch alphabets with 9 sketches of stitches in color options. Send ten cents to Winchester Evening Star Household Arts Dept for the pattern at 259 W 14th Street New York NY with name and address.
Morristown New Jersey July 27. Morris town Sketch Class directed by Correa votes to drop naked models after instruction by Chief of County Detective James C. Bellingham. Remaining sessions will use models in bathing suits draped or in evening wear. Correa says studying the human figure is essential for art.
Haifa raid by Italian bombers reportedly set fire to Shell and Socony-Vacuum gasolene and oil storage facilities. Dispatches from Haifa cite 46 civilians killed and 88 wounded as nine gasolene reservoirs with 36,000 tons capacity and oil tanks totaling 10,000 tons, plus vacuum tank capacity of 6,000 tons.
Prince Frederick Maryland July 27 Robert Glorioso 46 of Washington drowned in Island Creek at Broome's Island when he leaped from his crabbing boat to save his 14 year old son Antonio who fell overboard. The boy was rescued by Harry Parkes of Broome's Island who swam to him. Glorioso's foot became entangled in an anchor line and he disappeared beneath the water.
Attendants at a service station faced 99 degree heat as a Mississippi plated car arrived and ordered a heater installation. The brief note shows a humorous contrast between high temperatures and requests for warmth.
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hour precipitation at 0.66 inches and July to date at 3.57 inches. Monthly averages for 1913-39 list January 2.56 February 2.04 March 2.90 April 3.23 May 3.53 June 3.79 July 3.59 August 3.69 September 3.19 October 3.19 November 2.35 December 3.9. The 27 year average annual rainfall is 35.53 inches. Data courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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