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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1892 | 1 |
1 story matching gougeon
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:goug, gough, gudgeon, goon, goud, gout
- The Wage Suit That Ended With Altered Receipts and a Vanished Proprietor
A Paris restaurant worker sues for unpaid wages; the defense produces receipts that the plaintiffs say were doctored, and the proprietor slips away to California.
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- A Tree, a Right of Way, and a Man From Ontario
A hired hand clearing the Idaho & Washington Northern grade is crushed by a falling tree; his body comes home to Newport for burial before the long ride back to Walkerton.
- The Concrete Escape: A Forger’s Dramatic Jailbreak in Montesano
A. M. Gowan digs his way out of a 'burglar-proof' concrete jail using nails and a saw, leaving authorities along the coast on high alert.
- A Close Call at the Favorite Mine
A worker is nearly killed at the Favorite mine when a piece of waste quartz thrown from the dump strikes him in the throat.
- The Peril of the Eleventh Street Grandstand
A foreman's decision to add weight to an already overloaded scaffold leads to a dangerous collapse at the Tacoma baseball grounds.