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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1944
Page
5
A collection of scattered notes on early North American habitation advances, Noah Webster’s phonetic spelling idea, a 7 million under 38 father statistic, milkweed greens used by American Indians, London’s first glee club era, and a long U S Canada boundary mostly water.
Fragmentary reader letter style item mentioning Dear Noah, buyers paying cash for leopard skins, names such as Tori Plainfield and Joe Bennet of Peoria Illinois. Incomplete phrases about armskullery notions and dusted hinges.
The text references the White House repaint to cover fire marks from 1814, early Dutch traders at the Battery around 1613, Fort Nassau built in 1615, and Rossetti’s burial of a book influence. It also mentions late 18th century publishing, Scots butter aging, and a circular inch measure.
A cryptogram style puzzle page presents across and down clues with mis-spellings and garbled phrases. It lists fragments like Ferry boat var row ing, various garbled entries, a cryptogram quotation NEVER SEEMS WISER OR MORE LEARNED THAN YOUR COMPANY, and a dated credit line from King Features Syndicate.
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