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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 8 |
| 1858 | 1 |
| 1859 | 6 |
| 1860 | 2 |
| 1861 | 9 |
| 1862 | 1 |
| 1863 | 3 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1871 | 4 |
| 1872 | 22 |
| 1876 | 99 |
| 1877 | 95 |
| 1878 | 73 |
| 1879 | 4 |
| 1880 | 16 |
| 1882 | 15 |
| 1883 | 60 |
| 1884 | 25 |
| 1885 | 73 |
| 1886 | 37 |
| 1887 | 35 |
| 1888 | 51 |
| 1889 | 110 |
| 1890 | 17 |
| 1891 | 69 |
| 1892 | 176 |
| 1893 | 121 |
| 1894 | 102 |
| 1895 | 139 |
| 1897 | 3 |
| 1898 | 16 |
| 1899 | 42 |
| 1900 | 6 |
| 1902 | 3 |
| 1903 | 80 |
| 1904 | 43 |
| 1905 | 12 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 32 |
| 1909 | 80 |
| 1910 | 12 |
| 1911 | 5 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1914 | 26 |
| 1915 | 13 |
| 1916 | 39 |
| 1917 | 19 |
| 1918 | 2 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 12 |
| 1924 | 7 |
| 1925 | 4 |
| 1929 | 1 |
4 stories matching earli
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:earl, earlier, earliest, ear, earn, earp
- The Unseen Hustle of the Seattle Waterfront
While critics dismissed the city as a sleepy backwater, the secret traffic of sloops and warehouses revealed a burgeoning trade hub.
- The Rules of the Game: How Seattle's First Lawyers Codified the Fight for Land
When the Washington Territorial legislature overhauled the rules of civil procedure, they essentially wrote the blueprint for how Seattle’s developers and land speculators would battle over the city’s footprint for decades to come.
- The Panic Over 'Free Love' and Women's Rights in Early Seattle
An editorial from the Puget Sound Dispatch decries the growing suffrage movement, labeling advocates as threats to the 'sanctity of the marriage relation.'
- The Old Settlers' Legislative Fantasy
In an 1871 satirical 'Act,' a Seattle newspaper mocked the arrival of ambitious newcomers by proposing that long-time residents receive supreme, legally mandated authority.