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1 story matching knife
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:kife, knit, knick, knipe, knise, knive
- A Strike Argument at a Shingle Mill Ends with a Knife in a Man's Abdomen
Two mill hands fall to blows over the strike question; the ex-preacher parries a club and stabs the man his neighbors call crazy on the industrial question.