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Mob Rule in Lynden

Mob Rule in Lynden

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: You would think that the inauguration of a local area figure to the office of Washington State Governor would be the commanding top of the fold headline. But not in the January 11, 1905 issue of The Bellingham Herald. Albert Mead’s swearing in ceremony does garner a nice spot, but above the gubernatorial news in bold caps across the top of the paper is the…

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