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Limburger Fiend Raises a Stink in Colfax

Limburger Fiend Raises a Stink in Colfax

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: Sometimes the inside joke behind these eccentric pioneer news articles is just as entertaining as the work itself. Such is the case with this essay I found in The Weekly Vidette (Colfax, Wash.), April 19, 1883: LIMBURGER How a Colfax Lawyer had Probably Been Cured of a Bad Habit “Some fiend incarnate, during the past two weeks, has introduced within the city limits of Colfax,…

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