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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1947
Page
7
The piece presents varied trivia on the international date line and ship dates, felt production, the origin of apron, Costa Rica climate by region, and the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls. It highlights how timekeeping, materials, language evolution, geography climate zones, and engineering feats intersect in a curious digest.
A fragment notes Fountains Abbey near Ripon England a vast Cistercian ruin dating to the 13th century with a Norman English church and chapter house remains. It also mentions Fujiyama visible from 14 provinces at sea with a crater 500 feet deep and two and one half miles wide and notes cochineal dyes from insects in Mexico and Central America and the Cleveland Kentucky bridge as a high steel deck structure.
Puzzle corner presents a mixed word grid with clues across and down covering subjects from Apple seeds to ancient gods and modern terms. It includes references to oceans, rivers, plants, animals and letters, ending with a cryptogram quotation and a previous day puzzle result.
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