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1 story matching bleak
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:bleaker, bleakest, bleakley, blear, bleat, bleach
- The Dream of Homeownership in 1891
An early real estate pitch captures the Victorian-era obsession with property as a moral imperative.