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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 14, 1944

Page

7

Vast Thermos System Powers Shipyard Gas Supply

A giant thermos like vessel in an American shipyard provides acetylene and oxygen for burners welders and rod operators via a new low pressure generating system. It eliminates the need to carry liquid air cylinders to the job and pipes gases directly to the work point. Only two states North Carolina and Delaware have full local control of public schools. Fall plowing aims to improve heavy clay soils. Amber amulets were worn to ward off illness perhaps due to magnetic attraction. When rubbed against silk or wool amber picks up particles and seems alive.

Dear Noah and the Fortune Teller Sayings

A garbled OCR style notice presents questions about correctness of wearing old seer-sucker attire and mixed phrases about Noan Numskut and Irma Kang Wa yen. It reads like a jumble of names, places, and enigmatic terms without clear event or dates.

Noah Edgeles Cumbeeland Irma Kang

Pope and pirates and crowns in a scattered note

The text discusses Alexander Pope's nickname by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu for his deformity and sharp wit, defines a freebooter as a pirate, and offers a note on the word carnation derived from coronation. It also claims Albermarle Sound in North Carolina is the world’s largest coastal freshwater sound, and mentions a mis-timed average value related to Canadian ants.

Wasp of Twickenham Alexander Pope Mary Wortley Montague Ee Albermarle Sound North Carolina

PUZZLE CORNER DAILY CROSSWORD 41 11 15.1 19

Puzzle clues mix across and down with partial words and misprints. The page lists Across and Down items, some garbled phrases and a Cryptoquote with the quotation OUR LIVES ARE JAI SHORTENED BY OUR IGNORAN. The entry includes cryptogram hints and scattered puzzle conventions from a historic newspaper puzzle page.

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