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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 13, 1946

Page

5

Coral snake necklace and cataract optics facts

A coral colored tropical South American snake is worn as a necklace by native women for beauty and cooling purposes. Abraham Van Buren, son of the eighth U S president, served as a West Point graduate Army officer and presidential secretary. Separately, cataract operations reveal ultraviolet vision in lenses removed. Indian healers introduced cranberries to early colonists. Catgut derives from sheep, not cats.

South America Abraham van Buren U. S West Point

Toad Hop Mystery Fragments Surface in Scrap Text

Fragmentary OCR from a historical page shows garbled lines and stray names. No coherent event or date is discernible. Key entities include Noan Nomsku and Miss B amid nonsensical phrases about a toad and hops.

Aircraft industry to boost personal plane output this year

Factographs note the aircraft industry expects to produce about 30 000 personal planes this year, a shortfall of 20 000 from current orders on the books with daily increases. The raccoon dog of Japan and the Chinese coast resembles a raccoon in form and color. Parma, Italy, was named Colonia Julin Augustus Parma by Augustus as a Roman outpost in 183 B C. Cotes traces Arabia cultivation to 575 A D. Some steel firms’ newer blast furnaces approach 27 diameter.

Japan Parma Italy Augustus Julin Augustus Arabia

Puzzle Corner Cryptogram and Crossword Fragments

Puzzle item shows a Daily Crossword with clues and mixed text including Erblur, Uni versity, river, and cryptogram quotation. The garbled lines list several across clues and numbers, suggesting a puzzle page fragment with cryptic notes and an encoded quote. Entities include University of Connecticut, Cryptogram, and Southwest region references. The passage preserves the puzzle flavor and partial clue fragments without cohesive resolution.

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