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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 1 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 7 |
| 1861 | 3 |
| 1862 | 1 |
| 1863 | 5 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 16 |
| 1876 | 64 |
| 1877 | 75 |
| 1878 | 96 |
| 1879 | 12 |
| 1880 | 13 |
| 1882 | 8 |
| 1883 | 43 |
| 1884 | 19 |
| 1885 | 44 |
| 1886 | 12 |
| 1887 | 31 |
| 1888 | 80 |
| 1889 | 116 |
| 1890 | 14 |
| 1891 | 95 |
| 1892 | 132 |
| 1893 | 142 |
| 1894 | 147 |
| 1895 | 178 |
| 1897 | 4 |
| 1898 | 26 |
| 1899 | 42 |
| 1900 | 2 |
| 1902 | 4 |
| 1903 | 78 |
| 1904 | 62 |
| 1905 | 6 |
| 1907 | 4 |
| 1908 | 25 |
| 1909 | 78 |
| 1910 | 15 |
| 1911 | 6 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1914 | 8 |
| 1915 | 16 |
| 1916 | 25 |
| 1917 | 21 |
| 1918 | 2 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 11 |
| 1924 | 9 |
| 1925 | 3 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 3 |
13 stories matching offer
- The Political Price of a County Seat
When Steilacoom faced a challenge from a rising New Tacoma, citizens weighed civic growth against the hard cost of building a new government center.
- The Sawmill Scandal: Henry Yesler’s Long Legal War
Before the city grew, Seattle’s founding titan was locked in a decade-long, bitter courtroom battle over his sawmill, revealing the ruthless undercurrents of the frontier economy.
- The Price of Saving the Country
In 1880 Seattle, a local paper captures a cynical, all-too-familiar conversation between two men on the street regarding the true value of political engagement.
- The County Treasurer’s Double-Dipping Scandal
A local editor challenges a powerful official for illegally holding two offices, exposing a web of political favoritism in the Grand Jury room.
- The Mail System is Broken
In 1880, Seattle residents faced endless delays and 'willful neglect' from the postal service—an early grievance about failing public infrastructure.
- The Newspaper Feud That Rocked 1880s Seattle
An editorial from the Intelligencer exposes the bitter, vitriolic infighting between two local publishing factions during a pivotal municipal and general election season.
- The Bitter Feud Over a Burnt Seattle Sawmill
A public legal dispute between two businessmen reveals the high-stakes cost of the 1880 fire that razed a local mill.
- The Broken Promise of the Puyallup Coal Road
A political scandal erupts as Seattle accuses an attorney of pocketing fees while failing to stop the Northern Pacific Railway from seizing massive swathes of King County land.
- Taxation Without Infrastructure: The Skagit River Fight of 1880
While Washington Territory sent tax dollars to Washington D.C., federal officials offered little in return, forcing local residents to build their own river infrastructure.
- The Aristocratic Goose of Seattle
A satirical fable from the 1880 Seattle Daily Intelligencer offers a sharp critique of status-seeking and the folly of high-society marriages.
- The Political Mess of 1880
A biting, satirical critique of the factions coalescing around the Republican party's nominee, James A. Garfield.
- The Arctic Ghost Ships Found in a Seattle Paper
A haunting inventory of the lost Franklin Expedition, recovered by Lieutenant Schwatka, offers a somber look at the items that survived a generation in the ice.
- The Ethics of the Sting
A century before modern debates on police entrapment, Washington courts were already grappling with the line between preventing crime and creating it.