Port Blakely Mill
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- Jun 26, 1884The Charity Case Who Came Back a Brutal HusbandPort Blakely mill hands passed the hat for a crippled co-worker and sent him home to Kentucky. He came back married — and the town's justice of the peace had to take his wife away from him by night.Bainbridge Island, WA
- Jul 22, 1894A Railroad Blockade Broke the Lumber GlutPuget Sound mills had been selling below cost. Then floods and a strike cut the supply line—and manufacturers finally got the upper hand on prices.Seattle, WA
- Apr 25, 1895He Loved Her Too Much to Marry HerAdam Gehm, a Bavarian logger working in Carbonado, shot himself in a Seattle lodging house after confessing to a friend that illness left him unable to provide for the woman he loved. He had tried once before.Seattle, WA