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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 3 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 3 |
| 1860 | 2 |
| 1861 | 3 |
| 1862 | 4 |
| 1864 | 5 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 2 |
| 1872 | 9 |
| 1876 | 37 |
| 1877 | 31 |
| 1878 | 14 |
| 1879 | 7 |
| 1880 | 13 |
| 1882 | 5 |
| 1883 | 43 |
| 1884 | 14 |
| 1885 | 49 |
| 1886 | 20 |
| 1887 | 22 |
| 1888 | 38 |
| 1889 | 42 |
| 1890 | 8 |
| 1891 | 32 |
| 1892 | 186 |
| 1893 | 115 |
| 1894 | 138 |
| 1895 | 172 |
| 1897 | 2 |
| 1898 | 7 |
| 1899 | 17 |
| 1900 | 3 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 76 |
| 1904 | 46 |
| 1905 | 2 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 15 |
| 1909 | 74 |
| 1910 | 14 |
| 1911 | 7 |
| 1912 | 6 |
| 1914 | 6 |
| 1915 | 12 |
| 1916 | 17 |
| 1917 | 19 |
| 1918 | 5 |
| 1923 | 8 |
| 1924 | 9 |
| 1925 | 5 |
13 stories matching children
- The Great Table Etiquette Debate
An editorial scrap between the Intelligencer and the Post-Intelligencer over whether eating with a knife is a sign of 'vulgar' breeding.
- A Father’s Desperate Dash Through the Flames
In Snohomish County, a father saved his three young children from a burning home just as the roof collapsed, leaving the family physically scarred but alive.
- The Victorian Anxiety Over 'Fat Babies'
An 1880 advice column warns parents that 'excessive fat is really a disease' and cautions against the physical toll of oversized toddlers on their own developing bones.
- Quarantine in the Pioneer City: A Smallpox Scare in 1880
When two cases of smallpox arrived by steamer from San Francisco, Seattle authorities acted with swift, hard-edged precision to contain the contagion.
- A Family Tragedy in the Whatcom Courtroom
A mother and her twelve-year-old son were convicted of manslaughter after a deadly land dispute, highlighting the violent risks of territorial-era frontier claims.
- Sunday School Picnics at Alki Point
The community gathers for a mass outing at Alki, featuring clambakes and speeches under a clear sky.
- A Tragic Warning in the Slate Creek Woods
A logger is killed by a falling tree, fulfilling a premonition voiced by his son just moments before.
- The Wife Who Took Control of Her Husband’s Sobriety
A hardworking Seattle woman uses the law to force her dissipated husband into recovery, declaring she will build a better home while he is locked away.
- The Vandalism of Seattle’s Fences
An 1880 editorial decries the 'wanton vandalism' of men and boys who whittled, tore, and marked up the city’s decorative fences, signaling a growing urban friction between private pride and public mischief.
- The Business of Veterans' Benefits in 1880s Seattle
An advertisement for a local attorney reveals the complex bureaucracy of settling Civil War military land claims and homestead rights for pioneers in the Washington Territory.
- A Call to Harmony at the Territorial University
A visiting lecturer proposes a city-wide fundraiser to gift a Steinway grand piano to the University of Washington, arguing that music education is a moral imperative for a frontier territory.
- The Silent Epidemic: Diphtheria in 1880 Seattle
A harrowing, vivid account of the early stages of diphtheria, a 'perplexing theme' of illness that terrorized families and baffled medical practitioners in the Washington Territory.
- The Schoolhouse Lessons of Old Seattle
A reflection on the struggles of the country schoolmaster and the long-lost, innocent games of childhood in pioneer-era Washington.