Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company
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- Jun 9, 1893The Lineman and the Trolley LineA worker's damage suit against a telephone company is thrown out after the court decides infrastructure shouldn't have to withstand streetcar accidents.Seattle, WA
- Oct 17, 1893Seattle Says 'Hello' to Spokane, and the Whole Northwest ListensSeven hundred and ninety miles of hard-drawn copper connect Puget Sound to the Inland Empire, and the mayors of the two cities mark the occasion by orating about destiny, empire and a population of two million.Seattle, WA
- Jan 1, 1895The Wires That Grew With SeattleHow the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company rode Seattle from a forest village to a 25,000-person city — and, when the Great Fire of 1889 burned its plant out of existence, rebuilt the service in tents within ten days.Seattle, WA
- Mar 18, 1899Seattle’s Wire War: Why the City Can’t Wait for Electric Companies to DigAs corporations drag their feet on burying overhead lines, a local editorial warns that procrastination is a corporate scheme to defeat the public will.Seattle, WA