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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 2 |
| 1859 | 1 |
| 1860 | 5 |
| 1861 | 6 |
| 1862 | 4 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 4 |
| 1876 | 26 |
| 1877 | 16 |
| 1878 | 7 |
| 1879 | 2 |
| 1880 | 4 |
| 1882 | 5 |
| 1883 | 32 |
| 1884 | 17 |
| 1885 | 15 |
| 1886 | 7 |
| 1887 | 15 |
| 1888 | 7 |
| 1889 | 17 |
| 1890 | 5 |
| 1891 | 18 |
| 1892 | 38 |
| 1893 | 37 |
| 1894 | 39 |
| 1895 | 68 |
| 1897 | 4 |
| 1898 | 8 |
| 1899 | 6 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 7 |
| 1904 | 7 |
| 1905 | 1 |
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| 1912 | 1 |
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| 1916 | 5 |
| 1917 | 3 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1929 | 2 |
4 stories matching correspond
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- The City That Wants to Be the Boston of the Pacific
While San Francisco fretfully watches its own supremacy, an 1880 editorial predicts a rising Puget Sound metropolis of millions.
- The Wild West Gold Rush at the Border
When the federal government refused to station customs inspectors at the Skagit gold fields, Seattle merchants feared a massive influx of untaxed British Canadian competition.
- The Neah Bay Land Grab
A historic Seattle-area editorial exposes how federal officials and a powerful monopoly manipulated reservation boundaries to seize a lucrative trading post from a local merchant.
- The Great Thaw: Mountain Snows Turn Every River Into a Rampage
An unusually cool spring held a winter's worth of snow until a few hot days sent it all down at once, flooding the Skagit, Cowlitz and Columbia, drowning farmland and putting Portland under water.