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Robert Singletary, left, and Coeur d’Alene Press editor Mike Feiler viewed a compilation of Robert’s “Kootenai Chronicles” columns in 1995.

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Tiny Athol once was the railhead at the center of the Girl Scouts’ universe. On July 15, 1965, 616 girls from New York and New Jersey emerged from 27 Northern Pacific cars at Athol “singing, chanting and bustling with energy,” according to the Coeur d'Alene Press.