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Rhienheimer, Dr. E.W.

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Rhienheimer, Dr. E.W.

August 21, 2026

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El Paso’s winter celebrations predated the Sun Carnival and the 1920s Ospale Days, and the city’s old slogan, “El Paso, Where Sunshine Spends the Winter,” was being revived after having been dropped in the mid-1920s. Local physician Dr. E. W. Rheinheimer, then 87, recalled childhood memories of an…

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