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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1947
Page
5
A collage of brief notes covers wartime brides in England awaiting U S migration, Progreso in Yucatan as Merida's port, Hippo griffin myth, Khaki meaning dust, Pony Express speeds, Butterfield stage routes, Montserrat in the West Indies, the Russian Kremlin towers, and Moscow bells, ending with a stray science fact about air composition.
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