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1 story matching chopper
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:choppi, copper, hopper, chipper, cropper, shopper
- The High-Tech Logging Boom on the Deschutes
A glimpse into a massive 1882 timber operation near Olympia, where steam power and railroad infrastructure were transforming the Pacific Northwest forest into an industrial machine.