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5 stories matching pension
- The Right to Retire Abroad: A Veteran's Pension Fight
When a U.S. Congressman proposed cutting off pensions for veterans living overseas, the Post-Intelligencer defended an English immigrant who served in a New England regiment and returned home to Bradford after the war.
- The Vanishing Pensioner of Ballard
A Civil War veteran draws his quarterly pension and vanishes, leaving his family destitute for the fourth time.
- The Silver Question and the Workingman's Wage
A political maneuver in the House of Representatives forces a debate on whether wages and savings should be paid in gold or silver.
- The Hidden Past of a Ballard Pioneer
A woman’s confession of a non-marital union reveals the precarious social status of women in the frontier period.
- Cheers, Hisses and a Canal: The Night Tacoma Cheered the Ditch It Was Told Would Ruin It
At a packed Republican mass-meeting in Germania Hall, speaker after speaker dared the crowd to believe the Lake Washington canal would destroy Tacoma — and the crowd roared back that it would not.