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'As they walked in the fading light they were joined by several businessmen, someof whose establishments had been completely washed away. Three ships that day had it pass right under them and only one even noticedit. Crewmen from theBearthen pulled on the loose ends of the ropes, and the miscreants were hauled just farenough aloft so their toes could barely rea On the last day of what men insisted on calling the dying century, one of Tom Venn'sclerks asked: 'Everyone says Nome may soon have twenty or thirty thousand more people.

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