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6 stories matching haven
- A New Haven for Working Women
The newly organized Young Women's Christian Association opens its doors to provide meals, employment, and safety to Seattle's laboring class.
- A New Refuge for Working Women
The YWCA opens its doors in Seattle, offering a haven for women workers with a lunchroom, reading room, and employment bureau.
- The Firebug's Last Exit: A Tacoma Lodging-House Owner Hangs Himself
After firemen foiled his attempt to burn his own lodging house for insurance, Carl Haesbseche walked out before breakfast, rigged a twine noose, and stepped off a platform.
- A Haven for Working Women
A newly opened, elegantly furnished hotel designed to provide safe, dignified housing for the city's growing workforce of stenographers, dressmakers, and clerks.
- The Eccentric Prussian Who Vanished Near Green Lake
Joseph Lingenau disappeared from Walla Walla addition with about $250 in his pocket, leaving behind a trail of odd behavior—and two sons he had sent to the orphans' home.
- The $2 Fee That Sunk a Warehouse: Railroads Tighten Grip on Seattle's Waterfront
A group of local businessmen planned a major grain warehouse at the foot of Battery Street, but Northern Pacific's refusal to budge on switching fees scuttled the deal—and highlighted the railroads' stranglehold on Seattle's shipping future.