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| Year | Stories |
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| 1890 | 1 |
1 story matching ratchet
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:ratch, hatchet, rat, ratcliff, watcheth, chet
- Fatal Train Wreck Near Cle-Elum
A sleeping brakeman’s lapse leaves a freight train to roll backwards into a collision, killing a stowaway.