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| Year | Stories |
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| 1893 | 1 |
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2 stories matching spright
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:sprig, sprigg, speight, upright, searight, right
- The Great Cat Deception
A lonely Seattle resident is duped by his friends into believing a stray kitten arrived by express from Massachusetts.
- She Fell Into Puget Sound and Woke to Fishermen at Dawn
An 18-year-old hotel guest went shell hunting near Smith Cove, slipped between the logs, and spent a rainy night unconscious on the beach before two fishermen found her.