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3 stories matching pout
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:poutz, pour, pouch, pounc, pound, spout
- The Clerk Who Beat the Boss’s Carpets
A young worker’s humbling day of manual labor at his employer's home turned out to be a career-defining moment.
- The Scandal That Nearly Ruined the Colonel
A prominent Seattle businessman finds himself the center of a moral firestorm when rumors spread that he was ‘squeezing’ the factory girls—but the truth was far more mundane.
- The Unlucky Fisherman of Seattle
A satirical poem from 1878 chronicles an angler who spends a week sitting by a local sawmill, only to become a living piece of landscape architecture for the local insect population.