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4 stories matching prepossess
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:repossess, possess, press, possessor, preposter, dispossess
- A Scandalous Arrest in Room 43
A manicure and massage parlor operator is arrested in a Seattle hotel on charges of adultery with a prominent Tacoma contractor.
- Acquittal for a North Second Street Shopkeeper
A jury deliberates for less than fifteen minutes before acquitting a man accused of assaulting a young girl.
- The Jail Birth of Alice Spencer
After being turned away by the city's hospital and abandoned by her partner, a young woman finds refuge in a police cell to deliver her child.
- The Sea Gives Up a Member of the Ganiard Party
Four months after a storm swallowed a family of musicians bound for a dance, the body of young Wesley Ganiard is recovered near the mouth of the Snohomish River — but his mother is still missing.