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1 story matching coos
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:coo, cos, cook, cool, coon, coop
- Forty-Three Days of Gales, Then a Jury-Rigged Schooner Limps Into Port Townsend
Sails torn to ribbons and gear twisted, the three-masted schooner Buhne makes port after a voyage that should have taken three weeks and took six.