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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1948
Page
7
The piece outlines halibut stock recovery from 1910 to 1930 with joint US-Canada management since 1930, notes widespread ostrich farming in the US and Mexico, defines mollusks as sea shells from oysters and snails, and reports 16,326,000 American women 14+ in the labor force in April 1947. It also includes a snippet of letters and weather-related quips.
The text notes the Dukes of Medina Sidonia in Spain's political life and one was given command of the Armada for the 1588 invasion of England. It mentions the ruins of the ancestral palace at Medina Sidonia in Cadiz province. It also describes the hutia a West Indian rodent with four grinders per jaw and a round tail used for climbing. Additional items include Idaho’s Mullen Military road as the first official highway, built over three ver five years and 624 miles long, and a note on salmon and shad returning to their streams to spawn across several seasons.
A filled-in cryptogram puzzle presents clues for across and down items. The page lists numbered hints such as Frigid Smell Short wooden club and others with a final cryptogram string VIKOP CByo JIBVP AZQPUV YRS LYUUY DBS BIR UYLYRS.
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