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| 1893 | 2 |
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3 stories matching effi
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- A Community Evening at the Schoolhouse
A local teacher organizes an ambitious evening of recitations and dialogues to fund a needed school expansion.
- The Traveling Quack and the Stolen Girl
A traveling doctor accused of abducting a 12-year-old girl is arrested in Tacoma after a trail leading from California to the Puget Sound.
- The Struggle for Custody of Hazel Buell
A young girl rescued from a city 'resort' becomes the subject of a custody battle between her biological father and a teacher.