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| 1902 | 1 |
1 story matching partley
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- A Rancher's Revenge: Peaches, Borers, and Everett's Blind Eye to Gambling
When Everett's fruit inspector condemned 40 boxes of a Pateros orchardist's peaches for pests, J. H. Partley fired back with a blistering question: why enforce the fruit laws to the letter while the city's gambling dens run wide open?
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