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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1946
Page
5
A collage of facts covers diverse topics. Notes mention a four foot blue heron length, six foot wingspan, gray upper parts with black quill feathers, slate tail, steel wire from one pound of steel, California leading licensed pilots, night clubs at musical restaurants, ballad opera history, and baboons fighting upright yet often on all fours. Names Burgess Bunn Char and Vera McCoy Toledo appear.
James Ballantyne, a Scottish printer (1772 1833) studied at Edinburgh University. In 1796 he became proprietor and editor of the Kelso Mail and published Sir Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Acting on Scott’s advice he established a printing house in Edinburgh. An unrelated note mentions aviator eye condition causes and prevention by eye suction goggles.
Puzzle corner presents a mixed clue list with Across and Down entries. It includes terms like sack boar pig and foot of an ape, plus cryptic lines about eye banks and corneas for grafting. The garbled final line hints at a name pair and a place, suggesting a printer’s puzzle fragment from a newspaper page.
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