Napoleon Hoagland
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- Nov 3, 1891The Case for Naming an Olympia Street After Judge HewittA memorial sermon for a territorial judge becomes a plea to carve his name into Olympia's street map—and a meditation on what makes a public life worth remembering.Olympia, WA
- Dec 15, 1891There's "Dough" in Every Street Contract: A Preacher Takes On City HallRev. Napoleon Hoagland reads the nation's municipal record aloud — reeking streets, a million-dollar franchise given away, councilmen who elsewhere would count themselves lucky to stay out of prison — and asks why democratic America breeds more thieves than the Tsar's Europe.Tacoma Hall, Tacoma, WA
- Dec 22, 1891Olympia Debates How Far the Law Should Reach Into a Man's GlassAt Liberal Hall, the Unity Club argued the limits of temperance legislation — whether the state may police private drinking or only the liquor traffic itself.Olympia, WA
- Apr 16, 1892Workingmen Open a People’s Forum—and Hear That Olympia Sits on a VolcanoTwo hundred residents packed Columbia Hall for the first of a series of public-question meetings, where speakers warned of hard times and one declared the city was on the edge of an eruption.Olympia, WA