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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1956
Page
5
Classified notice offers 100 percent profit to a dealer in Rivesville on Rt 5 22 seeking someone to handle live minnows for bait. The ad notes local fishing conditions and odd observations about birds and hummingbirds reacting to color.
An ornery California publisher requests quiet speech and no disagreement while handling a notice. The text references a real estate anecdote involving a debt and a son covered in dirt, attributed to Jack Paar and Bennett Cerf, distributed by King Features Syndicate in 1058.
A garbled collection of phrases mentions a U S rodeo in Paris a French folk tale politics in Australia race for Indiana governor and various quirky notes about Berlin candy traffic tickets a piano in Germany and a proposed name change for the United States to United States of North.
A cryptic style crosswords page lists clues across and down with numbered entries. Entries include chemistry terms, weapon names, animal and plant hints, and language notes, inviting readers to fill a grid with solutions.
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