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1 story matching brighter
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:brighten, bright, brightest, righter, brighton, wrighter
- After the Panic, the Woods at Elk Filled Again
A two-month shutdown ended, the planing mill was set to start, and along the Great Northern lumbermen were saying conditions looked brighter than at any time since 'the financial flurry of last year.'