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1 story matching garb
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:garbl, gar, garbag, garber, gara, gard
- The Great Escape from the Chehalis Reform School
Two boys break out of the state reformatory in their nightshirts, only to be recaptured after a desperate clothes-stealing spree in Centralia.