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1 story matching elder
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:eldest, melder, selder, welder, elderberri, eldenia
- The Hypocrisy of Holy Ground: A Baptist Elder Arrested for Renting to a 'Notorious Courtesan'
In a scandal that rocked the small town of Montesano, Washington, in 1879, the arrest of a respected church elder for housing a sex worker exposed the gap between public piety and private reality.