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1 story matching alling
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:allington, alli, balling, galling, salling, allia
- A Territory Mourns: Olympia Buries Charles H. Mason
When Washington Territory's secretary and frequent acting governor died in 1859, Chief Justice McFadden and Olympia's leading men gathered at the capitol to call him a public servant 'of both soul and nerve.'