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1 story matching puget
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:puge, pug, pugh, paget, pugil, pullet
- The Price of Living in the Desert
A scathing editorial calls out the discriminatory rail rates that forced Columbia Basin farmers to subsidize Puget Sound middlemen.