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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1940
Page
6
Pattern 6796 offers instructions and illustrations for a crochet cloth, with photo and stitch details. Send ten cents to Winchester Dept. 259 W. 14th Street New York NY, with name and address and pattern number.
An advertisement for Everybody's Song Book promotes 205 songs for voice and piano, suitable for school use and glee clubs. The durable paper edition is compact and postpaid for twenty cents. Send name and address with payment to The Winchester Evening Star Information Bureau.
The report shows 24 hour precipitation none ending 8 a m and September to date 1 61 inches, year to date 31 28 inches. Average monthly rainfall over 27 years 1913 to 1939 ranges from 2.04 inches in February to 3.79 inches in June with December missing, and the average annual rainfall is 35 53 inches. Statistics courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
Society notes list visits and guests across towns including Mrs Franklin Luxford in Wash DC, Mrs R J Garnett in Greenway Street, Norfolk visitors, Strasburg bankers meeting attendees, weekend cabin trips to Cedar Creek, Philadelphia and Canada trips, falls and recoveries, and notes on Walter Finnell and family with ties to Front Royal and Elkhart.
In SANDS Nebraska on September 24 farmer Charles Saythinger boasted of a rabbit shot at the burrow. He then reached for the rabbit and was bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake but the bite was not severe.
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