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1 story matching sharp
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:sharpi, sharpl, sharpen, sharper, sharpli, shard
- The Tug That Sank at Her Own Moorings
The Defender goes down in ten feet of water off the Pend Oreille landing while low water ties up log barges on the bars and fog strands a sixty-passenger steamer below Boundary Island.