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- Mutiny at Port Townsend
A newly arrived crew refuses duty and fights for their freedom aboard a bark in the harbor.
- An Inmate's Charges: A Clergyman in the Asylum Accuses Its Keepers
A Presbyterian minister confined to the hospital for the insane levels 'painful charges' against its management, and the paper — even doubting his reliability — demands an investigation.
- A Diphtheria Scare at the Falls
A young woman's battle with a deadly disease prompts a public health warning for Spokane.
- The City’s Great Reshaping
Massive earth-moving projects on the hills of Seattle are transforming the landscape, burying the old city to make room for the new.
- Pool Hall Altercation Ends in Shooting
A disagreement over a bar tab leads to a violent confrontation in Old Town Tacoma, leaving one man in critical condition.
- A Nighttime Intruder Grazed by a Bullet
A man found in a stranger's house at night narrowly avoids death, leaving the homeowner in a state of nervous collapse.
- The Miracle of Fannie McCann
A lifelong invalid, confined to a chair for twenty-two years, found her voice and language only in her final hours.
- The Bachelor's Rebuttal
A young suitor gets an earful from a skeptical woman who prefers independence to the reality of 1880s marriage.
- The Last of the Pioneer Mariners
Captain Edward Harrington, a self-made man who helped forge early Puget Sound maritime routes, dies at Oak Harbor.
- An Inside Job at the County Jail
Two prisoners, a clerk accused of theft and an embezzling stevedore, escaped the King County jail by cutting their way out with tools smuggled from the outside.
- The predatory business of 'confidential' loans
A Seattle reporter goes undercover to expose local money lenders charging exorbitant interest rates to the desperate.
- The Store That Measured a Town's Ambition
A visit inside Chas. Sweeny & Co.'s new Union Block emporium — 6,000 square feet, a dozen chandeliers, a basement packed to the rafters — as proof that Spokane Falls had arrived.