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A pioneer resident was gunned down in the street by a notorious gambler, leaving a small town reeling from an act of random violence.
“Early this morning the result was found to be the death of Charles Pascoe, one of the pioneer residents of the town, who was found in the street with a bullet hole through his breast.”
A leading clubwoman exposes the cynical branding of an initiative she claims would destroy Washington's prohibition laws.
“If the people of Oregon do not rise up in their wrath to resent such an insult to the motherhood of their state and to their own intelligence as citizens, they will deserve the disaster they invite.”
Facing a nationwide paralysis of the rail network, Congress rushes the Adamson Act through to prevent a strike.
“The threat of a general railroad strike which has been hanging like a pall over the country for a month was lifted Saturday night.”
Pro-liquor advocates use the rise of bootlegging and 'blind pigs' to argue for the passage of Initiative 24, claiming that legalizing home delivery of light beer is the only path to temperance.
“Exhaustion largely of stocks acquired during month of December, 1916, for home use. County Auditor besieged with ever-increasing demands for permits to import.”
As Washington state grapples with its new dry status, three competing liquor initiatives challenge the stability of the 1914 prohibition law.
“The voter of Washington has still another task before him. The end is not yet.”
In Washington's Big Bend country, a blizzard stalls trains, drives a stage driver out of his mind and leaves a young rancher dead in the snow.
“The driver undertook to make the return trip Tuesday and got lost between Moses Coulee and the big draw, and when found by the eastern-bound stage driver in the morning he had lost his mind.”
A local merchant fights back against a Spokane jobber’s price-fixing tactics.
“They say our prices are too cheap. They have instructed the drayman to deliver us no more sugar.”
A visiting evangelist’s attempts to shame locals into piety backfire, leading the paper to call his tent-revival methods 'of no benefit to the community.'
“The license taken by some preachers of using language in the pulpit that would be prohibited in the parlor should be frowned upon.”
As a national railroad strike looms, President Wilson clashes with industrial magnates over the fundamental rights of labor versus the stability of interstate commerce.
“If a small number of men can block the country’s business the country ought to know it.”
Railroad managers take their wage dispute with union employees directly to the public in an aggressive advertisement.
“Do you believe in arbitration or industrial warfare?”
A young family loses everything, including their three children, in a devastating house fire while the parents were working in a nearby field.
“The mother is prostrated and the father is nearly insane over the terrible affair.”
After a string of brazen robberies in Princeton and Coulee City, detectives use decoys to bait a trap for the thieves.
“The thieves were shadowed by detectives, and by the aid of dummy letters, $7,000 of the plunder from the Butler and Bouss safes was recovered.”
A bold proposal to divert the Columbia River into the Grand Coulee to irrigate millions of acres of desert land.
“The natural formation of the Grand coulee, which is once known to have been the Columbia river bed, makes the project feasible.”
The local newspaper editor blasts the City Council for allowing Coulee City to descend into a state of 'innocuous desuetude' marked by neglected sidewalks and wandering livestock.
“The city is rapidly passing into innocuous desuetude. Weeds are growing rank, cows and chickens roam over the town at will.”
Fire consumes the Central Washington Railway roundhouse and a locomotive in Coulee City; officials suspect arson.
“There having been no fire around the building, the opinion is that it was of incendiary origin.”
In an aggressive 'bulletin,' Bethlehem Steel campaigns against a proposed $11,000,000 federal armor plant, claiming they can produce high-grade steel for less than foreign competitors.
“We shall make the mistake of silence no longer.”
A fire claimed the barn of Evert Mathis, but a local man's desperate rescue of the horses turned a property disaster into a harrowing life-or-death struggle.
“Walter English proved himself a hero by releasing two of Mathis’ horses that were in the barn when the fire broke out.”
Missing five regular players, the local baseball team overcomes a losing streak with a new battery and sheer determination.
“It was the general opinion... that we would again lose last Sunday, but the boys went into the game with a determination to raise their record.”
Local merchants announce a shift to a 'cash-only' economy, aiming to eliminate debt and reduce consumer prices.
“We believe that by selling for cash we can reduce the price enough to pay any one to borrow the money from his banker.”
A local contest for a new automobile concludes just as the law cracks down on gambling.
“This is the last raffle that can be held on account of the law that prohibits that form of amusement.”
A Spokane dentist crashes into a local carriage, leaving passengers shaken but mostly unhurt.
“The doctor brought the crowd into town in his machine.”
A new $11,000 facility brings bulk gasoline storage to the region, promising cheaper prices and modern efficiency.
“All the modern fixtures for economy and convenience have been installed.”
A local man suffers a harrowing fall off a bluff before daybreak, sparking a trip to town for urgent medical care.
“Mr. Ross, not being very familiar with the country, stepped over a bluff in the darkness, falling some fifteen feet.”
A judge orders a local man to be forcibly scrubbed after being declared a public nuisance.
“The dirtiest man in the state of Washington lives in Coulee City... the officer was to take and strip him, scrub with soap and water.”
The community mourns the sudden passing of Lovell H. Hodgins, owner of the local Cash Store.
“Our community was shocked last Saturday to learn of the death of Lovell H. Hodgins.”
For the first time, a thoroughbred foaled in Washington State is set to compete in the Kentucky Derby.
“It is the first time that a colt foaled in the state of Washington has ever been entered in the derby.”
New municipal code establishes safety standards and inspection fees for residential and commercial wiring.
“It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, to use... any electric current... in or through... any wiring, apparatus or fixtures in or on any building until same shall have been inspected.”
When a grocery clerk was handed his walking papers, he used the fine print on the envelope to outwit his boss.
“Yis and be jabbers, and didn't it say on the envelope, 'Return in ten days to the Jones Grocery Co?' Thim ten days was up yesterday.”
A Coulee City man survives a terrifying fall from an electric light pole.
“Pete essayed the ascent with a pair of saddle spurs, consequently when near the top he slipped and started for mother earth.”
Local business owners announce a shift away from credit-based commerce to lower prices and eliminate accounting headaches.
“We believe that by selling for cash we can reduce the price enough to pay anyone to borrow the money from his banker and eliminate the trouble and worry of keeping accounts.”
Daniel Twinning, a Welsh immigrant and early homesteader, returns to his final resting place in Paradise Valley.
“The old timers cannot forget him as a neighbor, associate and friend.”
Washington state secures over $91,000 for national forest road construction, contingent on matching local investment.
“The state is required to put up an equal amount.”
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