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A tragic error during a pipe connection leaves three dead and others severely burned after a home is leveled.
“A heavy pressure caused a break in the pipe, and the gas, escaping in large volumes, soon filled the house.”
Twenty-four workers pool their savings to lease and operate a local shingle mill after being laid off or seeking steady work.
“The main thing with us is getting steady work every day in the year, although we hope to declare good dividends, too.”
A household is devastated as a stovepipe fire claims the lives of two young sisters, leaving their father fatally injured while he attempted a rescue.
“The two daughters could not be aroused, and were burned to death, nothing but a little pile of bones being left to mark the place of their cruel death.”
At their annual convention in Marysville, Washington, labor delegates debate the future of the industry and the path to a shorter workday.
“The conclusion reached was that if the shingle weavers' union never raised wages nor shortened hours, if it taught its members to think and reason out cause and effect it would be fulfilling a great mission.”
A Marysville clergyman faces a near-drowning at the hands of an angry crowd after attempting to enforce strict Sunday-closing laws against a local baseball game.
“Somebody in the crowd called out 'throw him into the river' and an angry mob forced the minister toward the water.”
A Marysville judge shuts down jury trials for those accused of vagrancy, empowering local police to forcibly remove 'bad characters' from the city.
“The statutes relating to this would become a dead letter if left to juries.”
A grim discovery near Marysville reveals the quiet tragedy of a life ending in the river woods.
“No effects were found, beyond a note-book containing an unpronounceable name, very illegibly written, and the date August 8.”
A mother is committed to the state asylum after an attempted murder-suicide in a woodshed.
“Mrs. Fisher was standing over a chopping block across which she had the neck of her year-old babe.”
Snohomish County shingle weavers look to expand their influence by partnering with Whatcom County, as union organizing gains momentum in the region.
“These conventions are proving to be a very profitable thing for the weavers as it brings the different locals in close touch and sympathy with each other.”
A Marysville resident challenges a poll-tax law, sparking a legal test case that worries road commissioners.
“The suit will be in the nature of a test case and will be carried to the higher courts if necessary.”
A postal worker’s bicycle breakdown in Marysville leads to a terrifying, high-speed foot race with a black bear.
“He only touched the ground every hundred yards.”
A former Marysville postmaster is given two weeks to reconcile embezzled funds or face a lengthy prison sentence.
“The court deferred binding the prisoner over for two weeks, that opportunity of making good the shortage might be given.”
Before it was a suburban hub, a settler reports back on the 'tender years' of Marysville and the desperate need for roads to connect the new frontier.
“There is no greater nuisance with which a frontiersman has to contend than the absence of roads.”
As the Snohomish River valley faced economic stagnation, a new townsite at Marysville was pitched as a promise of fertile independence for fifty families.
“Some fifty families could easily be located on extra fertile land, much of it beaver marsh, all very easily improved.”
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