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| Year | Stories |
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| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 1 |
| 1876 | 118 |
| 1877 | 186 |
| 1878 | 137 |
| 1879 | 33 |
| 1880 | 6 |
| 1882 | 1 |
| 1883 | 5 |
| 1884 | 4 |
| 1885 | 13 |
| 1886 | 9 |
| 1887 | 3 |
| 1888 | 4 |
| 1889 | 12 |
| 1891 | 4 |
| 1892 | 41 |
| 1893 | 32 |
| 1894 | 10 |
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| 1911 | 4 |
| 1923 | 1 |
3 stories
- A Deadly Medical Dispute in Snohomish
A doctor in the Snohomish valley faces fatal violence after a long-standing property dispute with a local family spirals into a shooting.
- Tragedy in Fern City: Four Children Perish in Home Blaze
A mother’s brief errand ends in unimaginable loss when her home is consumed by flames, trapping her four young children inside.
- The Unraveling of a Seattle Banker
When the cashier of the Snohomish National Bank was found to be a defaulter, the resulting financial ruin exposed deep cracks in the stability of local frontier finance.