On This Day, Nov. 15, 1923

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Thu, 11/15/2012 - 1:00am

Some fellow was mighty poorly paid for his night's work last night when he burglarized the office of the Columbia Garage and the Tum-A-Lum Lumber Company in Kennewick. At neither…Click to Continue »

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