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4 stories matching tag
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:tagu, taggar, tagowa, talmag, tab, tad
- Abandoned in the Storm
Three children, orphaned and penniless, were found wandering the streets of Seattle in the rain, clutching tags that pleaded with strangers for help.
- The City’s 'Worthless' Vagabond Problem
A 1885 editorial call for the city to forcibly expel the unemployed, framed as a nuisance to the thriving Pacific Northwest economy.
- The Forgotten Safety Practice of 1885
A century and a half before GPS trackers, a Snohomish County editor offered a simple, low-tech solution for the perennial heartbreak of a lost child: use indelible ink.
- The Unclaimed Dead of Lake Union
A morning discovery at a local boat house reveals the lonely, anonymous death of a Prussian immigrant, underscoring the precarity of life in a booming frontier city.