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| Year | Stories |
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| 1885 | 1 |
1 story matching pitcher
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:pitch, ditcher, pincher, pitchman, pletcher, pitchfork
- The Tragedy at the Gold Bar Hotel
A young worker’s lonely death in a Seattle hotel room reveals the harsh, often isolated reality of life for laborers in the 1880s.