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1 story matching skill
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:skil, skillet, skillman, ski, kill, sill
- “Close Your Gates to Us — But Give Us Independence First”
A Filipino student in Seattle goes before the Labor Union's legislative committee to head off an exclusion bill, and finds the union men surprisingly reasonable — because independence, he argues, gives them exactly what they want anyway.