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1 story matching inflat
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:inflam, inflamm, inflationist, inflex, inflow, influx
- The Palouse Wheat Boom Was a Gold Mine—Until the Debt Came Due
An agricultural professor traces the Palouse’s speculative wheat economy: inflated land purchases, the rain-ruined crop of 1893, the panic that followed, and the sudden recovery by 1897.