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Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:heighten, heavyweight, eight, hight, headlight, haight
- 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.