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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
10
The article says churches produce small Bibles with steel covers marketed to stop bullets, but WPB notes these covers have no real protection against direct rifle or machine gun fire. Military post exchanges sell the small Bibles to service members via relatives, while manufacturers obtain thin steel plates for covers.
Los Angeles reports anthropologists discuss origins of the zoot suit with theories linking its style to Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind and Harlem beginnings. The piece notes the fashion spread, gear details, shortages, arrests, and that zoot suit wearers include youths of Mexican ancestry amid recent disturbances and police actions.
The Virginia crop reporting service reports a busy week with haymaking progress in alfalfa and clover, oats starting in southern counties, and orchard grass being cut in southwestern areas. Sheep shearing advances while potatoes and truck crops find brief relief from heat.
Miss Jennie Pennington of Baltimore will spend the summer with Mr and Mrs Howard Owings. Visitors include Rev C R Curtis and others from Woodstock at a W S C S meeting. Summers guests include Don Evans of Wilkinsburg and multiple family visits across Middletown and nearby towns.
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