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1 story matching acr
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:acrid, alacr, acreag, across, acd, ace
- The Railroad Platting a Town: Fifty Acres Become Fourteen Blocks
The Blackwell road surveys the Jaynes tract west of Newport into city lots, moves its headquarters into a new Spirit Lake depot, and promises two trains a day to Spokane by New Year's.