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Backwoods Towns Names

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Spokane, Wash. (U.P.)--The collegiate spirit prevailed when small towns that dot the inland empire were first named. Across the Idaho-Washington state line in heavily timbered country are seven tiny villages, named by a group of college students. Their names are Wellesley, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pur due, and Stanford.

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