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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1946
Page
7
A partial OCR read mentions an Alabama individual owning a railway venture linked to the L lines approaching Mobile with a modern design. The fragment hints at a development project and transportation infrastructure ambitions in the Mobile area.
This fragment notes blast furnaces as the first step in iron making and describes their large brick-lined towers. It mentions dangerous snakes in India and Ceylon regions revered spiritually, the digestible sugar of oranges with stated food value, and a historical claim about rockets used by the Chinese in 1232 to repel invaders.
The text explains iron reduction where carbon forms carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide to free iron, noting needed carbon and coke for war production. It mentions curing times for ham and bacon, dogs raised for food in ancient Mexico, and Franz Josef Land in the Arctic being largely ice covered.
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