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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1944
Page
5
Scott's Scrap Book notes a mountain in Sweden reaching 2455 feet with a 615 marker and describing iron ore grades of 70 percent. The item highlights high grade ore potential and notable elevation, reflecting 19th century industrial curiosity.
A collection of brief curiosities notes William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia founded 1698 and chartered 1701 the same day Penn chartered Philadelphia. It mentions Whittier and Riley as two notable American poets and La Motte lead mine near Frederick Missouri with 200 years of operation. It cites 180000 steel workers in U.S. armed forces. It also discusses Tarquin Entering Rome a 1460 Jacopo del Sellato painting in Cleveland showing a legendary eagle stealing and later crowning Tarquin, symbolizing royalty.
A garbled set of historical curiosities notes fractions of a republics land, shipyard production secrets, Alfred Tennyson on the Isle of Wight, early Nantucket settlement dates, and a Dutch widow earning a medal for pineapple cultivation, all presented in terse archival fragments.
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