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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1944
Page
5
A collage of curiosities notes Ja pan and Canada as Western North Carolina communities, describes Iowa’s rolling prairie and fertile soil, explains qui vive as a sentinel alert, slight salt composition, tano wood as the lightest, and the English use of sun helmets, with stray postcard references and odd capitalized lines.
The article notes the White Tower at the Tower of London dating to 1078 and Alfred the Great’s 885 bastions. It also mentions Oklahoma’s state formation from Indian Territory with five tribes, North Dakota’s lignite coal, Chile holding two thirds of South America’s mineral resources, and a World War II RAF carrier pigeon record of 68.7 mph.
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