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1 story matching incens
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:incent, incentiv, incendiar, incept, incess, incest
- The Bachelor of South Lake and the One-Dollar Fine
A territorial dispute over a fence escalated into a shooting and a lake-dunking, leading to an unlikely legal entanglement for an elderly hermit.