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4 stories matching toll
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:tolliv, tollgat, tollman, told, tole, tolo
- A Hospital Built for Industry’s Toll
How the Dominican Sisters established a critical medical lifeline for Aberdeen’s dangerous logging and mill works.
- The Human Cost of the Des Moines Boom
A tragic suicide in Tacoma exposes the devastating toll of speculative real estate schemes.
- The Mortgage Hangover: Seattle’s Post-Fire Reckoning
A federal census agent tallies the heavy toll of reconstruction, revealing how the city’s rapid rebuilding after the Great Fire of 1889 fueled a massive wave of high-interest debt.
- The Desperation in the Estelle Lodging House
A young clerk's public suicide attempt on a Seattle street reveals the grim, hidden toll of illness and economic instability in 1891.