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1 story matching ado
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:adob, ador, adoin, adolf, adoni, adopt
- When a Chinese Theater Company Rented Tester’s Hall
In 1883, a morning paper attacked the lease as a public offense. The Post-Intelligencer pushed back: the actors were no more immoral than any other troupe, and the hall was old anyway.