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4 stories matching snug
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- Padding the Patrol
A skeptical editorial questions the necessity of a bloated police force in an orderly town.
- The Short-Lived Reign of the 'Hotel Barber' Scoundrel
After five weeks of marital and managerial incompetence, a Seattle hotel proprietor's husband is sent packing—without the horse he tried to steal.
- The Charity Case Who Came Back a Brutal Husband
Port Blakely mill hands passed the hat for a crippled co-worker and sent him home to Kentucky. He came back married — and the town's justice of the peace had to take his wife away from him by night.
- The Unlucky Runaways of Tacoma
Two young men who walked from Kalama to Tacoma seeking work instead find themselves behind bars after a clumsy theft from a local wood hauler.