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1 story matching foil
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:foibl, foist, fossil, foothil, foxtail, guifoil
- The Narrow Escape of the Portland Express
When armed bandits flagged down a Northern Pacific passenger train near Roy, the engineer made a split-second decision to keep the throttle open.