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1 story matching fourth
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:fourthth, four, fourteenth, fourteen, fourtner, forth
- The Pioneer Who Never Gave Another Speech After Mt. Baker Erupted
N. V. Sheffer, Whatcom County’s oldest living pioneer, brought his donkey cart to Ferndale’s old-settlers’ reunion—and told why he stopped speaking in public in 1854.