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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 10 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 10 |
| 1860 | 4 |
| 1861 | 18 |
| 1862 | 6 |
| 1863 | 6 |
| 1864 | 8 |
| 1865 | 3 |
| 1871 | 1 |
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| 1878 | 41 |
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| 1889 | 151 |
| 1890 | 35 |
| 1891 | 129 |
| 1892 | 303 |
| 1893 | 273 |
| 1894 | 240 |
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| 1897 | 8 |
| 1898 | 19 |
| 1899 | 74 |
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| 1918 | 2 |
| 1922 | 2 |
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| 1925 | 8 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 2 |
1 story matching pass
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:pas, passag, passer, passiv, passov, passabl
- The Great Legal Squabble of 1871
A simmering territorial dispute over the 'Big Wigs'—the lawyers and judges—debating exactly when a law becomes a law.