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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1940
Page
6
A 16 year old operating a tank in Isbluff Nebraska caused the machine to balk and veer into Henry Holt’s front yard. It flattened a 12 foot elm tree and crashed into a porch as onlookers watched in disbelief during the June 19 event.
Learn to crochet a filet cloth from an easy chart with four sizes based on cotton weight. Pattern 6643 includes instructions, chart, and stitch illustration. Send ten cents to Winchester Evening Star Household Arts Dept for the pattern and write your name address and pattern number clearly.
This Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau notice promotes a ten cent booklet titled CANNING AND PRESERVING. It promises tested recipes for canning vegetables fruits meats and chicken plus jellies jams preserves marmalades and pickles to help stock the pantry for winter. Readers are urged to mail ten cents with name address and location to Washington D C.
Present and past rainfall totals show 0.37 inches in the last 24 hours ending at a.m. data, June to date 2.92 inches, year to date 17.92 inches. Average monthly rainfall over 27 years 1913 to 1939 lists values for each month from January 2.56 to December 3.79 inches with an annual average of 35.53 inches. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
New York reports rescheduled boxing card with champion Joe Louis versus Iuro Listenting as prime radio event if weather cooperates. Listings include NBC CBS WJZ WEAF and WABC broadcasts from 6:15 to 11, plus variety programs and a preview of the Louis Godoy fight.
Omaha on June 19 reports watch repairman Sam Cosentino has a new apprentice, Tony the 22 day old English sparrow, replacing last year’s Tony who was killed by a cat. The young bird learns to pick up screws and watch parts as training begins.
Paul Gordon, 15, watched a squirrel vanish into a tree hole in Lamar Missouri. He climbed the tree and fired through the hole with his rifle, shooting his own leg. He was treated for the wound.
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