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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1854 | 10 |
| 1858 | 3 |
| 1859 | 7 |
| 1860 | 3 |
| 1861 | 6 |
| 1862 | 11 |
| 1863 | 2 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 23 |
| 1876 | 72 |
| 1877 | 44 |
| 1878 | 55 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 15 |
| 1882 | 11 |
| 1883 | 82 |
| 1884 | 41 |
| 1885 | 59 |
| 1886 | 34 |
| 1887 | 33 |
| 1888 | 73 |
| 1889 | 140 |
| 1890 | 19 |
| 1891 | 86 |
| 1892 | 175 |
| 1893 | 173 |
| 1894 | 153 |
| 1895 | 232 |
| 1897 | 5 |
| 1898 | 15 |
| 1899 | 39 |
| 1900 | 6 |
| 1902 | 3 |
| 1903 | 88 |
| 1904 | 66 |
| 1905 | 4 |
| 1907 | 6 |
| 1908 | 43 |
| 1909 | 103 |
| 1910 | 26 |
| 1911 | 4 |
| 1912 | 1 |
| 1914 | 21 |
| 1915 | 18 |
| 1916 | 43 |
| 1917 | 28 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1923 | 7 |
| 1924 | 8 |
| 1925 | 6 |
| 1929 | 2 |
7 stories matching within
- Steilacoom’s Editor Asks Who Will Start the Fire Brigade
With wooden buildings packed into the business district and no reservoir, engine or ladder company, the Puget Sound Herald warns that a single blaze could erase the town’s prospects.
- A Child's Fatal Fire at Point Roberts
The second son of Alexander Hahn died after his clothes caught fire while playing with his brother.
- A Fatal Mistake in the Nursery
A young child dies after accidentally consuming sulfuric acid left in a tub.
- The Mystery of the Degenerate Wheat
A local doctor presents a strange botanical specimen that challenges the agricultural wisdom of 1859.
- A Chief Seized at Fort Bellingham
Acting Governor Mason's requisition sends soldiers after Kitup and Nelson; a visit to the Indian agent ends in a scuffle, an escape attempt, and a military arrest.
- A Boomtown Year: Steilacoom Runs Out of Empty Houses
In its first-anniversary survey of Puget Sound, the Herald finds every vacant building in Steilacoom filled — and thirty new ones thrown up in eight months.
- The Senate Ratifies the Treaties That Remade the Northwest
Ratified in 1859, the 1855 treaties with tribes across Oregon and Washington promised annuities, schools and mills while ceding millions of acres to settlement.