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2 stories matching pilfer
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:hilfer, piller, pier, pile, pill, pefer
- The Manufactured 'Venice of America'
A writer discovers his picturesque essay on the Sound country was secretly rewritten into a promotional advertisement for Tacoma.
- The Sad Case of Eight-Year-Old Albert
A young boy, orphaned and abandoned by his father, is sentenced to reform school for petty theft.