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1 story matching checkroom
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:check, checker, backroom, checkmat, sickroom, checkbook
- Seattle Church Opens a ‘Checkroom’ for Children
First Presbyterian will care for working mothers' children from morning to night for seven cents a day—no questions asked.