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4 stories matching carrol
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:carol, carro, carrom, carron, carrot, carr
- The Struggle for the Alaska Trade
Seattle fights to become the primary gateway for the northern trade route, challenging the dominance of Port Townsend.
- The Campaign to Drive Out Chinese Laundry Workers
Tensions boil over in late 19th-century Seattle as the Knights of Labor organize a systematic movement to forcibly remove Chinese laborers from the city's economy.
- The Schoolhouse Ballot
A rare glimpse into a local 1886 Seattle school board election where women cast roughly half the votes.
- The Great Smuggled Salmon Caper
When federal agents boarded the steamer Idaho, they didn't just find barrels of fish—they found a desperate, high-stakes attempt to smuggle opium into the Pacific Northwest.