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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1940
Page
7
An unclear report describes a group identified as Indians of Quiana in South America surfacing by water on a motion of hands with a low whistle. The fragmentary text is difficult to parse and contains multiple unrelated garbled terms.
A compact word puzzle readthrough lists numerous crossword clues across varied numbering, including sow, genuine, sprites and elevates, with down clues featuring water body kind of tree cave and more, hinting at a mixed grid of synonyms and wordplay lines with nation language hints and partial phrases from a newspaper puzzle page.
The excerpt notes the first US chamber of commerce organized in 1768 under a royal charter, Navy slang derived from a Chinese term, Marietta Ohio founded in 1788 by Rufus Putnam, and a New England colony honoring Marie Antoinette. It also cites US telephone penetration at 44 percent, about 2.8 million phones nationwide, Babylonian time division, evergreen pines and many trees, and Nebraska first observing Arbor Day.
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