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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1940
Page
14
A description of elegant spring lunch ideas featuring salad sandwiches on raisin bread. The recipe outlines assembling ham and chives with vegetables on toast, garnished with cream cheese rosettes, olives, cucumber slices, and Thousand Island dressing, plus decorative toasts and optional chicken.
Evelyn S Early shares a fool proof Scotch shortbread style tea cookie recipe. Ingredients include shortening sugar flour pecans and vanilla with 40 minute bake at 325 degrees. Roll in confectioners sugar while hot and yields about 30 cookies.
Two 19 year old youths were sentenced in Circuit Court in Maryland for burglary larceny and receiving stolen goods in a case tied to a Mrs Harper home burglary. William Beauchamp of Salisbury received four years and Charles A Connor of Wilmington two years after silverware valued near 300 dollars was traced to a Wilmington junk yard for 33 dollars. Connor testified he helped Beauchamp travel to Wilmington.
Douglas School Alumni Association officers Ellsworth Turner and Francis Moten announced the 1940 drive for funds will run from March 28 through April 11 with Charles C. Reed as chairman. Members are urged to support the campaign and all gifts will be gratefully received regardless of size.
The Census Bureau finished a 147000 piece map spread across the nation showing all streets alleys institutions and landmarks. Each section covers an enumeration district for the sixteenth decennial census which begins next Tuesday and each enumerator received a map of their district.
Washington March 28. February postal revenues totaled 60 696 458 dollars a record for the month and four million dollars higher than February 1939 the post office department reported today.
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