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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1946
Page
5
The text presents scattered curiosities including Rogers Rock legends on Lake George, a 1945 stainless steel ingot production claim, Robbin’s talc mine in North Carolina, London’s 6000 telephone operators, annual gift duties, and a note that water is lighter as a solid than as a liquid.
The fragment cites methods of wood compression to restore thickness after moisture, mentions drawings of London before the 1666 fire from Wren lead and mentions Cleveland Museum of Art items. It also references 1945 butter flavor testing and Tyrol Deanery taste and smell methods, and notes Letitia Gauze wife of Robert Christian a Virginia planter who died in the White House.
Fragmentary puzzle notes list cryptic hints and partial wordplay. The readable items include foreign terms and incomplete clues such as a shade of green and a poetic metric reference, suggesting a mixed crossword style on a historical newspaper page.
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