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| 1894 | 1 |
1 story matching flatboat
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:flat, flatt, float, flatcar, flatten, flatter
- The Pork Barrel Standoff
Washington State’s Representative John L. Wilson stops a Texas infrastructure bill until the needs of the Northwest are recognized.
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- The Town That 'Resorted to Flat-Boats'
A skeptical writer from Walla Walla mocked Olympia’s tide-swept landscape, prompting a sharp, defensive retort from the local editor.