Rainfall statistics for Winchester region 1913 1948 period
P sent and Past Rainfall shows 24 hour rainfall ending 7 a.m. May totals and year to date figures. It lists May 1949 rainfall to date 3.00 and total to date 11.50 with 36 year average annual rainfall 36.42 and monthly averages from 1913 1948 including January 2.47 February 1.92 March 2.91 April 3.07 May 3.68 June 3.88 July 3.81 August 3.82 September 2.58 October 3.34 November 2.50 December 2.43. Courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
Grain Race Around the Horn Reduced to 2 Windjammers
Two tall windjammers, the Pamir and the Passat, sail from Port Victoria to Falmouth in a renewed grain race around the Horn. Both ships, four masted barques of 2700 and 4000 tons, carry wheat cargos and crews of about 30 seeking adventure.
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Port Victoria
Adelaide
Falmouth
England
Horn
South Autralian
Spencer Gulf
Australia
Erikson
Passat
Hamburg
Bjorkfelt
Pamir
Sweden
Finland
Ivar Hagerstrand
Baltic
New Zealand
Bill Stark
Nashotah
Wis
Zurich
Switzerland
Bill
Autralia
Hagerstrand
Sacred Cod Hanged in Boston Statehouse on March 17 1784
On March 17 1784 Mr. John Rowe moved the House that leave might be given to hang up the representation of a Cod Fish. The pine effigy hung opposite the Speaker's chair in the Boston Statehouse as a symbolic protest.
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Boston
Statehouse
John Rowe
Virginia Cities Intervene in Phone Rate Case
Thirteen Virginia municipalities seek to intervene in the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. rate case before the State Corporation Commission. A utilities committee meeting of the League of Virginia Municipalities will decide the league’s course of action. Proposed rates would raise C and P’s annual gross revenues by about four million dollars.
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Richmond
Virginia
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
State Corporation Commission
Utilities Committee
The
League of Virginia Municipalities
League
Localities Weigh Intervention in Virginia Case
Harold Baumes of the League of Virginia Municipalities said 18 localities answered league queries on whether to intervene in the case.
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Harold Baumes
League of Virginia Municipalities
League
Coal to Oil Plants Opened in Missouri
The dedication of two Bureau of Mines demonstration plants in Louisiana Missouri marks groundwork for converting coal to oil and gasoline. Secretary Julius A Krug urged private industry to build facilities of its own.
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Missouri
Louisiana
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Interior
Julius A. Krugg
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