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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1946
Page
5
The piece notes the 1900 Galveston hurricane and flood with up to 16 feet of water and about 8,000 deaths. It adds trivia on the Gambia river length, Roman gambling bans, New World monkey teeth, and Munich as Germany’s third largest city.
The readable fragments mention Mount Morgan in Queensland noted for gold deposits within a rock mass with iron ore and siliceous sinter, plus unrelated lines about television color transmission in 1945 and synthetic rubber production. Mentions of Noan Noah and others appear garbled, with scattered names and places.
Puzzle clues cover across and down entries with definitions and word lengths. A Cryptoquote quotation follows, with yesterday's solution: YOU CANNOT HEAR THE PLANET-LIKE MUSIC OF POETRY-SIDNEY, &
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