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Grafton Sentinel in Grafton, West Virginia

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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jun 03, 1948

Page

6

Aviation gadgets and industry notes from 1947 era

The 1947 aviation advances include a photoelectric instrument that records cloud height automatically at airports, a visibility device for safer landings, and a portable wind speed and direction meter for takeoffs. Life Insurance Institute notes families with children more often own policies. Furnace brick shapes include bull head skewback and featheredge. Residual fuel oil demand reaches 60,205,200 gallons daily, up 1 percent since 1941. Cinnabar ore yields mercury.

Institute of Life Insance

Power with spinach and forecast buzz in odd text

An unclear OCR fragment mentions spinach, weather forecasts, a name Van Parse, and places like Bowling Green Ohio. It reads as garbled notes with repeated phrases and misspellings, offering little coherent news content or identifiable events.

Bowling Green Ohio Eens Van Pere Praga

Chester England Ancient City on a Rocky Height

The ancient episcopal city of Chester in Cheshire stands on a rocky sandstone height and remains the only English city with its walls largely intact before World War I. The text notes emotions of anger and fear and refers to adrenalin like exertion affecting people, though specifics are unclear.

Chester Cheshire England

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