Tacoma National Bank
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- Jun 9, 1883A $1,000 Lot Sells for $16,000 as Tacoma BoomsA bank building and lot on Pacific Avenue fetches a record price, a sign of the speculative frenzy sweeping the new city.Tacoma, WA
- Sep 8, 1887The Street Improvement FiascoWorkers left penniless and street projects stalled as city contractors vanish without pay.Tacoma, WA
- Feb 27, 1889The Drunkard’s Fortune: Tacoma Bank Takes Over $1,100 from an InebriateIn a stark display of 19th-century temperance law, Officer Frank Cavanagh has declared wealthy Tacoma man Michael Murphy legally incompetent due to alcoholism, depositing his cash into the bank for 'safekeeping.'Tacoma, WA
- Apr 5, 1892The Betting Frenzy at Pacific and TenthA high-stakes municipal election turns Tacoma’s city center into a chaotic, money-soaked spectacle where candidates bet on themselves and crowds swarm the streets in political delirium.Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA
- Dec 25, 1893The General Who Laid Out TacomaMaj. Gen. John W. Sprague—Northern Pacific superintendent, Tacoma's first mayor and a founder of its bank and chamber—died at 74, leaving a city he helped place on the map.Tacoma, WA
- Apr 19, 1899The Man Who Hated the Number 13A Seattle resident petitions city commissioners to change his house number because he believes the digit brings bad luck to his family.Seattle, WA