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Dispatches from history: Western Washington County October 18, 1923

A young man breaks a collarbone after leaving Balm Grove and the prune harvest is over in these snapshots of life in Gales Creek in 1923.

Dispatches from history: Western Washington County October 18, 1923
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In this column, we take a look back one hundred years ago in western Washington County. This week, the clips come from the Washington County News-Times published October 18, 1923.

Want more local history? Visit the Banks Historical Society online at www.bankshistory.org for Banks-area history, and Friends of Historic Forest Grove, which often works in the Gales Creek area, online at www.fhfg.org.

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