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1 story matching foster
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:forster, fosterhick, faster, fester, footer, poster
- A Mayor's Daughter, a Botched Kidnapping, and a Crushed Rib
In Tacoma, would-be abductors snatched the wrong 10-year-old girl, then dumped her bleeding in the street—hours before her father was injured in a city hall elevator accident.