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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1940
Page
7
The page presents a jumbled daily crossword with numbered clues across many categories from standard pressure to woolen fabric and ancient places. It lists multiple incomplete entries and garbled spellings such as Norae god and Neverthe with scattered numeric hints, suggesting a scrambled puzzle with inconsistent answers and misprints.
A patchwork of notes cites Paris once called Letitia and Caesar’s Gallic War burnings. It lists Upland Arkansas as the smallest incorporated U.S. city in 1930, and traces the origin of namby pamby to Ambrose Phillips. It quotes demography, a young vice president John Breckenridge, and a few stray facts about Washington and Sweden.
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