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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1950
Page
3
The central government plans to nationalize road transport nationwide with provinces proposing that revenues fund road improvement and construction. A stray text references Vienna tuning and telephony, not related to the main report.
Lake Eyre, long a dry silt pan in Australia, is now flooded covering about 4,000 square miles. An exploring party navigated the lake in a launch, one member became seasick, and they observed a surprising tide ranging from 12 to 15 inches.
In Rome reports describe the land of San Giovanni in Persiceo near Bologna as a 4,942 acre medieval estate that has changed owners the sixty third time in a 500 year routine. Every nine years since 1383 A.D. plots subdivide and pass by a lottery system.
In Reseda California Margaret K Steward claimed a bee caused a wind blown sting to her eye leading to a car crash into a parked vehicle. The collision caused about $500 in damage to both cars.
Seventeen new recruits from Singapore Malaya pass six week drill and disciplinary course. The group includes 10 Chinese eight Indians five Malays and four Eurasians. They will train further in air technical jobs at RAF Seletar base near Singapore. Eggs packed end down to keep batter.
Legal advertisement states that the undersigned individual will not be responsible for debts contracted by others. The notice asserts sole liability for own obligations and excludes responsibility for third party debts.
In New York a sprawling complex at Rockefeller Center is described as the country’s largest privately owned center for business and entertainment. The piece notes wartime air cargo totals, ship weight comparisons, and new UN insignia use by Korea war correspondents, alongside a brief joke on counterfeit coin detection methods.
The origin of Silent Night is traced to Oberndorf in Tyrol Austria in 1818. Pastor Joseph Mohr and schoolmaster Franz Gruber created the hymn on Christmas Eve and first performed it that night. The song gradually spread after 1819, first titled The Tyrolean Song and later translated worldwide becoming a beloved Christmas classic.
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