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| 1854 | 3 |
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| 1895 | 119 |
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| 1929 | 1 |
2 stories matching serv
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:server, servic, servil, servant, servian, serviss
- Wenatchee Booms—But Its Hotel Tables Don't
The valley's population is surging and its fruit is prize-winning, yet a Seattle agricultural paper finds the Bell Hotel a sorry advertisement.
- The Palouse Professor Who Helped Rediscover Heredity
Before Mendel's laws were famous, an agriculturist at the Washington State Experiment Station stood alongside three European scientists as a co-discoverer of them — and proved the principle with velvet-chaffed wheat.