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1 story matching whine
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:whiner, hine, whif, whig, whim, whip
- The 1876 Plea to Ditch the City for the Soil
Amidst economic stagnation in a young Seattle, a local editorial poem urges the 'idle clerks' and unemployed of the city to trade their pens for plows.