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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1940
Page
11
Neighborhood mothers share a popular Easter cookie recipe. Fruited Chocolate Squares use shortening sugar eggs melted chocolate and a pineapple banana filling baked in a moderate oven to yield about three dozen treats.
Gainesboro Virginia March 21. Calvin Shoemaker of Lebanon Church spent the past week with Mr and Mrs Janny Davis. Julia Adams hosted visitors Mrs Frank Lee Flowers and Mrs Minnie Lamp. Conrad DeHaven visited Mr and Mrs Caskin Brown Sunday. Peyton Darlington and family moved to the Blue Mountains for timber work. Shoemaker and Davis called on Will Davis Sunday. Ursel DeHaven and children spent the weekend with relatives in Martinsburg West Virginia.
John S. Middlebrook a 22 year old junior from South Orange New Jersey shot himself Monday night after a failed romance and died at the college infirmary in Hanover New Hampshire.
The Star prints a daily recipe using Jonathan apples as Winchester’s staple. A fruit mix combines lemon juice pine apple grapes marshmallows and walnuts with a pineapple juice custard dressing made from eggs sugar flour butter and whipping cream stirred heated and folded into the fruit.
A reflective verse themed around March as a tumultuous precursor to spring. It likens the month to Scarlet O Hara and Tempest and Sunshine, noting unpredictable days and a higher hand guiding the calendar. The piece blends imagery of storms and sweetness in a literary, period voice.
Salt Lake City police on March 21 reported the department’s clock missing. The piece of equipment vanished, prompting an investigation and questions about internal security.
Barbara Bell Fashion Pattern No. 1940 B offers a slim waisted dress with gathered bodice and rippling skirt for graduation and dancing parties. Afternoon length suited for graduation frocks, white trimmed navy dress, and daywear. dance length formal for major parties. Patterns fit sizes 11 to 19 with specific yardage and bust measurements. Send for Spring Pattern Book. one pattern and book 25c.
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