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2 stories matching interstic

Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:interst, inter, intersect, interspers, interf, intern

  1. Seattle's First Real Street Paving

    A specimen half-block is laid on Commercial Street as a test to end the era of plank roads and mud.

    Oct 21, 1893The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyBoom & Bust · Gone Forever

  2. Seattle Begins Filling Its Tide Flats

    Surveyors lay the base line and piledrivers start a brush-and-earth bulkhead along Railroad Avenue, turning watery flats into buildable ground.

    May 21, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyFollow the Money · Boom & Bust

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