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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1944
Page
5
The passage notes Sequoya, a Cherokee credited with devising a writing system for his people, born around 1760. It also describes Hindus revering the Ganges as sacred, a fish filleting innovation around 1925, and the Ganges draining the Himalayas before flowing to the Bay of Bengal.
The article recalls Sir Walter Scott as an outdoor poet who spent much time in the saddle and enjoyed horses, dogs, hunting, and salmon fishing. It also mentions 1944 safety shoe usage by steel workers and notes Italy's universities dating back to the 13th century. It references Ojibway chiefs inviting Longfellow's family to witness an Indian reproduction of Hiawatha on Lake Huron and ends with a fragment about Galen's ancient remedy.
A dense listing of crossword clues across and down with numbers and partial answers, followed by a cryptogram quotation and a note promising a Day Yesterday solution. It includes many garbled terms and references to explorers bears and cryptograms from King Features Syndicate.
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