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1 story matching expend
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:expens, expenditur, unexpend, expel, expand, expect
- The Debts a Country Owes Its Farmers — and Its Farmers' Wives
An 1898 farm-column editorial tallies what rural Washington neglects: untrained road supervisors, school directors so illiterate the legislature had to bar them, and farm women who never see a newspaper or a neighbor.