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4 stories matching huff
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:huffin, huffman, hufford, dehuff, hufden
- The Unintended Love Triangle at the Farmhouse
When a city girl retreats to her grandmother's farm for some peace, she finds herself playing host to two stranded suitors during a storm.
- The Bachelor's Rebuttal
A young suitor gets an earful from a skeptical woman who prefers independence to the reality of 1880s marriage.
- Rising from the Ashes: The Great Seattle Fire of 1888
While the downtown core smoldered, Seattle citizens gathered in the courthouse—lit by tallow dips—to demand a modern city of brick and stone, rejecting makeshift wooden shacks and dreaming of a reconstructed metropolis.
- The Man Who Couldn't Be Named: A Mysterious Suicide on Pike Street
In the early hours of a Seattle morning in 1902, a barkeeper discovers a stranger dead in his room with no ID and a note addressed to 'Joe.' The city is left with a body, a mystery, and a morphine bottle.