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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 5 |
| 1858 | 5 |
| 1859 | 5 |
| 1860 | 3 |
| 1861 | 7 |
| 1862 | 3 |
| 1863 | 3 |
| 1864 | 2 |
| 1872 | 14 |
| 1876 | 63 |
| 1877 | 55 |
| 1878 | 38 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 6 |
| 1882 | 19 |
| 1883 | 80 |
| 1884 | 43 |
| 1885 | 55 |
| 1886 | 26 |
| 1887 | 38 |
| 1888 | 38 |
| 1889 | 101 |
| 1890 | 16 |
| 1891 | 74 |
| 1892 | 215 |
| 1893 | 185 |
| 1894 | 199 |
| 1895 | 232 |
| 1897 | 11 |
| 1898 | 17 |
| 1899 | 37 |
| 1900 | 5 |
| 1902 | 4 |
| 1903 | 110 |
| 1904 | 66 |
| 1905 | 5 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 39 |
| 1909 | 109 |
| 1910 | 33 |
| 1911 | 8 |
| 1912 | 3 |
| 1914 | 12 |
| 1915 | 18 |
| 1916 | 26 |
| 1917 | 16 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 13 |
| 1924 | 8 |
| 1925 | 7 |
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- The Husband Who Had Enough: A Domestic Dispute of 1877
A rare 19th-century report of a King County man seeking divorce on the grounds of domestic abuse, citing his wife's 'cruel and inhuman treatment.'
- The Tragic Accident That Stopped a Clock: The Death of Mr. H. Kelly
A promising builder and father of four dies in a freak hunting accident on the banks of the Snohomish River, leaving his grieving widow to raise their children alone.
- The Dog Who Defied Gravity (and the Mayor)
A canine visitor to Seattle’s Tremont Hotel proves that while political patronage is hard to shake, a dog’s instinct for self-preservation is stronger.
- The Price of a Scandal in 1877 Seattle
A public notice in the territorial court reveals the harsh, legal reality of a divorce filing on the grounds of 'frequent adultery' in late-19th-century Seattle.
- Sunday Refreshments at the Yesler Pleasure Garden
A look at the popular 1870s recreational spot where Seattle residents found relief, music, and ice cream on their days off.
- The Unstable Ground Beneath Tacoma
A historic landslide on the Tacoma waterfront serves as a stark reminder of the city's precarious geography.
- The Unexploded Bomb in the Hillside
A curious fragment of Civil War history turns up on Sixth Street, linking Seattle’s quiet streets to the violent Indian Wars of the past.
- The Last Chance for a Snohomish Homestead
An 1880 land offering near the Snohomish River highlights the foundational scramble for riverfront property and the dream of independent homeownership.
- Nine Good Men Never Came Home From the Seal Grounds
A hurricane off Cape Flattery swallows three canoes full of the strongest seal hunters of the tribe, all in the perilous work of gathering furs.
- The Water Took Her: A Canoe Accident at Seattle's Wharf, 1877
A canoe overturns in the dark beside Mechanics' Wharf. The others make it to shore—but the old woman slips away before anyone can save her.
- The Price of Matrimony in Territorial Seattle
A public court summons from 1877 highlights the rigid legal and social standards for marriage and family in the Washington Territory.
- Divorce and Duty in 1877 Seattle
A legal notice exposes the harsh realities of matrimonial dissolution and property disputes in late 19th-century Washington Territory.
- The Price of Education: Seattle Schools in Crisis
When the School Board looked to rent space from the University of Washington to ease overcrowding, they were met with a rental demand that signaled the end of public space as a bargain.
- The Unteachable 'Sixth Sense' of Journalism
An 1876 editorial from the Northern Star debates whether the craft of a reporter can be taught in a classroom or only mastered in the heat of the newsroom.
- A Convent Escape and a Steamer Waiting: The Elopement That Ended in Port Townsend
When her parents opposed the match on religious grounds, Mary Emma Kealy was cloistered in a convent. She escaped in a carriage, reached a waiting steamer, and married Ward Debeck in Port Townsend.
- The Price of Staying Fed and Housed in 1877 Snohomish
A local lawsuit reveals the mounting cost of room and board in the early days of Snohomish County.
- The High Price of Corporate Greed in 1884
A historic editorial from Snohomish highlights the divide between executive pay and the struggles of the working man.
- The Forgotten Stakeholders of the Rails
In an 1877 labor manifesto, Wendell Phillips argues that capital has failed the American worker and that mutual committees are the only path to economic peace.
- The Push for a Western Migration
In 1877, Seattle boosters and railroad agents mapped out a deliberate campaign to transform the Puget Sound basin from a 'remote' wilderness into a thriving, industrial metropolis.
- Raising the Barn: A Frontier Memory
A look back at the communal labor and rough-and-tumble celebrations that defined building a new life in early Washington Territory.
- The Lawyer Who Couldn't Help: A Woman’s Disillusionment with Seattle’s Legal System
In April 1877, a desperate woman seeking financial support from her absent husband walked into a Griswold Street lawyer's office, only to leave more skeptical of the legal profession than when she arrived.
- The Panther and the Mountain Cave
A pioneer’s harrowing brush with death during a massive Washington landslide leads to an unlikely alliance with a wild beast.
- The Dream of Ship Harbor
A speculative report on a new settlement near Fidalgo Island that promised to control the wealth of the Snohomish and Skagit valleys.
- The Boarding House Debt
A legal dispute over unpaid bills for housing and goods reveals the precarious reality of daily life in the Washington Territory in 1877.
- The Diphtheria Menace in Pioneer Seattle
A century and a half ago, Seattle residents faced a terrifying invisible contagion, with the newspaper urging 'sanitary' precautions that eerily mirror modern public health guidance.