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1 story matching veget
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:vegetobl, vet, vega, beget, velvet
- Spokane’s Fifteen-Cent Fair Was a Dollar Show for the Inland Empire
In October 1897, Spokane turned a downtown block into a clean, no-gambling agricultural exposition—and invited the whole Inland Empire to admire its fruit, grain, and future.