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| Year | Stories |
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| 1916 | 2 |
| 1917 | 3 |
5 stories matching truth
- A Populist Critique of Kennewick’s Power Rates
Reader C. Puderbaugh challenges the local economic status quo, questioning why Kennewick residents pay ten times the price for electricity compared to taxpayers in Tacoma or Cleveland.
- The Price of Dissent in Kennewick
A local resident writes to the paper to denounce a neighbor for 'treasonable utterances' and calls for a stricter enforcement of loyalty during wartime.
- The Loyalty Test at the Breakfast Table
A Kennewick editor argues that questioning official reports of German war atrocities is tantamount to treason.
- The Hard-Won Lessons of Irrigating the Desert
An editorial reflection on the struggle to transform the arid sagebrush of the Columbia Valley into productive farmland through experimental science.
- Keep Your Money at Home? In Kennewick, the Shoe-Leather Trail Led to Pasco
A letter to the editor takes aim at buy-local boosterism, arguing that Kennewick shoppers already knew the real prices—and often crossed the river to Pasco or sent away for mail-order catalogs.