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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1946
Page
5
An assortment of notes on Cynewulf and his poetry, the origins of Berkshire, the old meaning of cad, and the chenille yarn used in modern upholstery. The text links linguistic history to place names and fabric terminology with concise historical hints.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Noan Nomsxou and Rost Mami F with unclear context about a wedding. The readable bits indicate a possible note or notice but lack concrete details such as dates places or affiliations.
A survey notes anti knock fuels with heavy metal compounds, watermelons grown on over 200000 acres in Texas Georgia and Missouri, ergot cultivated in India, Watling Islands in the Bahamas, an apparatus using electron or gamma ray streams to detect hidden flaws in thick steel, and the use of helium for lighter airplane tires in 1945.
Puzzle corner presents a list of clues with abbreviations and garbled entries for a cryptogram as well as a featured quote. The solution reveals a cryptic line attributed to Bragg about time and fighting.
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