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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
11
A vintage home canning guide presents recipes for peaches in syrup with cloves, bread and butter pickles, crab apple preserves, carrot pineapple conserve, and apple peach conserve. Prepared by Margaret Flickinger, Home Economist for Northern Virginia Power Company.
Dessert ideas to brighten weekdays with frozen burnt almond ice cream and maple mousse. Recipes include ingredients for ice cream and mousse, with instructions for freezing and chilling using ice and salt.
Expenditures totaling 1 818 000 dollars for Virginia telephone plant construction and equipment installation were authorized by Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia at a Richmond meeting. About 800 000 dollars will fund numerous small contracts.
A compact consumer ad promises a simple fix for loose dentures. Sprinkle FASTEETH on denture plates to secure them firmly without gummy taste or sour odors. The alkaline powder aims to improve comfort and freshness and is sold at drug stores.
The company prepared for increased long distance calls due to National Defense in the Norfolk area and authorized $105,000 for additional improvements. Year to date expenditures for expansion and improvement of telephone plant in the state totaled $7,775,000.
A university report shows women students at the University of Maryland last year posted higher averages than men with an overall 4.7 grade advantage. Sorority members averaged 3.19, Sigma Kappa leading groups with top marks. Governor Conor called on officials to mobilize draft registration services on October 16.
Strong northeasterly wind raised rough seas in the Strait of Dover making navigation by shallow draft vessels nearly impossible today.
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