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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1940
Page
6
In Mt Vernon Washington a civic club holds a Jubilee where two bit throws at a baseball target topple a chair and dunk the occupant in water. Mayor C W Vauz and other officials, bankers, merchants, and judges take turns in the chair. The club reports strong cash intake, especially when the mayor sits.
Advertises transfer pattern 6701 with 12 motifs for towels and pillow cases. Includes illustrations of stitches materials needed color schemes and instructions to send ten cents to Winchester Evening Star Household Arts Dept 259 W 14th Street New York NY with name address and pattern number clearly written.
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hour precipitation at 1.50 inches, July to date 5.07 inches, year to date 23.54 inches. Average monthly rainfall over 27 years 1913 to 1939 lists values for each month, totaling an annual average of 35.53 inches. Data courtesy of Winchester Research Laboratory.
Condition of the rivers at Riverton highlights North Fork Milky and South Fork Clear, noting flow levels and water clarity. Weather patterns influence current conditions along the river segments and nearby crossings.
The meeting opened as usual with patrol den meetings. Ten members plan a weeklong camp. each boy must bring a soap carving for a prize. After a numbers game, the meeting closed with taps.
SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y. July 30 Don McNeill may default the Meadow Club invitational after a poison oak infection picked up while practicing among trees. A doctor said the rash spreads rapidly and his playing status would be known only today. Welby Van Horn did not appear and was defaulted.
Howard A. Gray of the Interior Department announced minimum mine prices for soft coal will take effect September 3. The scale ranges from 10 cents a ton for low grade Indiana coal dust to 5.25 dollars a ton for high grade lump coal from Washington State. Secretary Ickes said Gray completed the long awaited schedules and began mailing them to industry members.
A fragmented item notes a missing Steve, last seen about a month ago, with a foreign-country note claiming seclusion. The piece references famous detectives and a humorous aside about bananas, preserving a surreal, postcard-tone mystery.
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