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3 stories matching bed
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- The Excelsior Boom: How Puyallup Turned Wood into Bedding
A nascent industry in the 1870s aimed to replace imported hair for mattresses with locally milled cottonwood shavings.
- The Commonweal Army Vacates Puyallup
After weeks of encampment, the 'army' of unemployed men departs the city for Washington D.C., leaving the streets quiet.
- The Global Hop Trade of 1888
While the farmers of Puyallup slept, their harvests were already changing hands in the high-stakes markets of London.