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1 story matching oak
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:oaken, oakey, oakdal, oakley, oaa, oakland
- The Afternoon Everett First Looked Up
In 1911 a 'birdman' circled the mill stacks in a machine of spruce and wire, and the whole town stopped work to watch.