Up until the 1600s, it was more popular in English to use -ew instead of -ue for that particular sound.
We still use "blew" and "drew". But we also uses "clue" and "blue." We seem to have turned the -ew into an exclusively past-tense verb thing for words ending in vowel+w, while a weird Frenchy -eu thing is for nouns.
Then there's "through" and "boo," which are the exact same sound, but we just do whatever because our language is incomprehensible madness.
I was inspired to look this up because of this newspaper clipping from 1951 Washington State, from a The Missing Enigma video:
I guess this could be a coincidental typo.
But knowing what I know about American English, which is "we do whatever we want for whatever incomprehensible reason, stfu Euronerds," I feel like this was probably an intentional spelling by someone who was educated by a religious person who thought antiquated English spellings were what Anglican Jesus wanted.