James A. Moore
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- Jan 12, 1891The 1891 Land Rush in Brooklyn AdditionWhile developers promised a suburban utopia with low down payments, the aggressive marketing tactics of the era reveal a housing market obsessed with rapid expansion and installment-plan speculation.Seattle, WA
- Mar 19, 1893The Miracle Cure for Seattle's 'Slavery'A new $1,000,000 company arrives in Seattle, promising to cure everything from alcoholism to tobacco addiction with a mysterious 'German remedy.'Seattle, WA
- Oct 1, 1903Sell the Bonds, Build the Furnaces: Seattle's Steel GambleA 1902 prospectus asks ordinary Seattle savers to finance a Pacific Coast iron and steel empire — a furnace at Irondale, open-hearth works on the West Seattle waterfront — with a hundred dollars of stock thrown in free with every hundred-dollar bond.Seattle, WA