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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1944
Page
6
Radio notes indicate tonight’s schedule and station identifiers K C WwToP is00 and J WRC-980 in Kansas City with brief listing of programs and times for the evening broadcast. The fragment mentions call signs and network alignment, typical of a local radio page.
Major league clubs spent 137 500 dollars in under 15 minutes at their draft meeting as they seek pitchers and catchers. Top picks included Charles Sproull chosen by the Philadelphia Phillies Marino Pieretti selected by Washington and Tom Sears taken by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Detroit did not bid nor did St Louis 1944 champions Cardinals or Browns.
A short advertising notice about a booklet titled Correct Speech. It includes a request for ten cents and a sample order form, asking for a Word Booklet. It mentions postage details for letters to a prisoner of war and notes that postage is free if the sender marks prisoner of war in the upper left corner.
After 47 years of marriage in Los Angeles, Andrew L. Glines 75 and May Glines 64 dissolved their union yesterday. The husband cited his wife’s objection to his smoking cigarettes as the reason for the divorce.
Present and Past Rainfall shows 24 hour precipitation none ending at 8 a m. October to date 3.40 inches year to date 34.21 inches. Average annual rainfall 35.95 inches based on 31 year record 1913 1943. Monthly averages by month listed from January 2 51 to December 2 43 inches. Courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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