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1 story matching half
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:hal, halford, halfway, hale, hali, hall
- The Unlikely Enforcer of a Party Game
A jealous husband at a frontier social insists his young wife receives equal attention—or else he will settle the matter with his fists.