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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1947
Page
6
A compact school dictionary advert promotes a 4 by 5 inch reference with over 21 000 definitions plus supplements on mispronunciations abbreviations foreign phrases and common errors. Priced at twenty five cents postpaid from the Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau Washington DC.
The Evening Star reports the opening Friday for the Ladies league with Va. Fruit Co Worths and Jr Women of Berryville sweeping their matches. Miller Fletcher led Berryville with a 107 game while Mrs Carskaden posted a 131 game and 336 set as Worths topped GAA No.2.
Capon Springs guests from Cross Junction Pa include Mr and Mrs Clarence Shelburne and family. Ollie Anderson returns from Memorial Hospital improved. Paul Stine and Mac Stine move to new homes. Pfe and Eugene Cooper visit with son Larry.
The War Department states that formal landing in Japan was by troops mainly from the 11th Airborne Division and the 27th Infantry Division. They were flown from Okinawa to Atsugi Airport between August 28 and September 12, 1945. Prior air echelons from FEAF Eighth Army XI Corps and Air Transport Command paved the way.
Present and past rainfall figures cover 48 hours to Sept 7, and year-to-date 1.25 inches in 1947, with 26.20 inches to date for the year. The 24 year average is 36.30 inches, and monthly means for 1913–1946 are listed from January 2.45 to December 2.43 inches. Data courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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