This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1949
Page
6
The record shows 24 hour precipitation to 7 am with none. Sept rainfall to date 1.98 inches. 1949 rainfall to date 34.01 inches. Average annual rainfall over 36 years 36.42 inches. 36 year period monthly values list including Feb 1.92, Mar 2.00, Apr 3.07, May 3.68, Jun 3.88, Jul 3.81, Aug 3.82, Sept 2.58, Oct 3.34, Nov 2.50, Dec 2.43.
Richmond report shows 902 Virginia students mostly in upper class knew few key figures and events. Only 10.2 percent named George Mason as author of the Virginia Bill of Rights, 12 percent cited Henry Lee for independence proposals, 7 percent recognized Roger Clark, while Poe was recognized by 95 percent. The commission faults teaching focus on culture over government and notes curriculum revisions underway.
Detroit reports Quonset huts of curved roofs to house grain under the Agriculture Department program. About 2300 structures are funded by the Federal Commodity Credit Corp and erected by Local agencies with Great Lakes Steel Corp. as supplier. The article also notes U.S. medical school graduations in 1949.
National GOP leaders voiced confidence that direct farm subsidies can win Midwest votes as farmers at a Sioux City conference oppose government handouts and back a self financing program to fund selling surpluses abroad and at home.
A. Costa leads a drug farming program at the College of the Ozarks to free the nation from foreign drug sources. Twenty acres are set aside for cultivating drug bearing plants such as belladonna stramonium and ergot to supply farmers who can grow medicine locally. Costa, a biochemist who pioneered drug plant cultivation in Romania, directs the effort.
A Kansas backwoods project plans to identify ideal conditions for cultivating White fir as a domestic crop. White fir trees can reach about 140 feet in height and 36 inches in trunk diameter.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.