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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1981
Page
23
A jumbled OCR page includes a scoring puzzle with point values, a stray list of names, a horoscope column for Leo Libra Scorpio and other signs, plus crossword-like clues and a boxing of random dates. The fragment shows ambiguous context but preserves named entities and dates from the era.
AP wine and food writer notes United States leads shellfish consumption with crabmeat rising in popularity after Lowell Wakefield’s freezing techniques made Alaska king crab widely available. Wakefield’s Kodiak Island discovery in the 1940s spurred his innovations.
The final Philadelphia Poultry report notes price negotiations for truck lot sales of ice packed Grade A broilers and flyers with a weighted average price of 50.61 cents. Delmarva reports barely steady demand with ready to cook demand light and prices ranging 33 to 64 cents per pound, weighted at 55.87. Baltimore eggs show spotty demand with Grade A large 74-76 and medium 64-46. Grain futures shift with corn down and soybeans down. hogs move on futures with a 49.17 cent nearby. A long commodities list follows including beans, blueberries, cabbage, cantaloupes, corn sweet, cucumbers, eggplant, endive, escarole, greens, lettuce, mushrooms, onions, and more. The report also describes Alaska king crabs, their size, gear, and the cooking recipe for a crustless crab quiche.
The report notes that cannibalism has officially ended in Kundiawa and Papua New Guinea highlands yet clandestine practices may persist. It describes lavish wedding customs, polygamy tied to pig wealth, and vivid body decoration, with 1980 tribal fights killing 114 and injuring 9, amid land and pig ownership disputes. It also mentions San Francisco Bay’s late discovery by Portola in 1789.
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