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| Year | Stories |
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| 1889 | 1 |
1 story matching skill
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:skil, skillet, skillman, ski, kill, sill
- The Political Pudding of the Washington Legislature
How local party bosses in the late 1880s traded speakerships and senate seats in smoke-filled backrooms to secure personal power.