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| Year | Stories |
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1 story matching yong
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:yon, yona, yonk, young, yonder, yonson
- A Threat in Chinatown: The Laundryman, the Secret Society, and the Police Escort
After a robbery in Wa Chong’s building, a Chinese agent fears assassination by a band of seventeen ‘highbinders’ and asks Captain Brennan for safe conduct home.