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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1944
Page
5
Facts summarize the development of the breeches buoy rescue line with Army Chief Lieutenant Lyle, noting a line throwing gun replacing unreliable rockets and referencing other historical details about French North Africa population, paper mill log digestion, cold deck logs, Swiss bell-ringers, and the cod family member barbot.
A garbled OCR style passage mixes watch details and facts about fish breeding behavior, the Statue of Freedom, and historic institutions. It notes male bluegill sunfish guarding eggs, a bronze statue weighing 14 985 pounds atop the Capitol dome, and historical first post office, Trinity College Dublin, and Amsterdam's Municipal University dates.
The page presents a cryptogram challenge with numbered clues for a crossword like solve and a cryptogram quotation from Schopenhauer. It also notes yesterday's quote about truth and lists distributor King Features Syndicate.
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