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| 1877 | 2 |
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6 stories matching hyde
- The Piano, the Pool Table and the Bar: A Roadhouse Wife's Last Hand
Julia Lillis says her husband has gambled and drunk away the takings at the Hyde Park House, the resort he keeps by the South Seattle race track, and now means to sell the furniture out from under her. A judge froze it first.
- A Home Lost to Fire in the Growing City
A vacant house on the corner of Hyde and Lite streets is destroyed by fire, leaving a young couple who had only recently moved in with nothing.
- A Night of Masks for a Neighbor in Need
When an illness left a woman unable to work, the Gilman community stepped up with a masquerade ball to raise funds for her care.
- The Silver Fight Waiting Inside Spokane’s Republican Convention
Nine Supreme Court hopefuls, three congressional candidates, and a free-silver bloc turn Washington’s 1894 state convention into a backroom brawl before it even opens.
- Seattle’s School Board Said No to $153
Contractors crowded the board meeting, but a fight over $4,000 versus $4,153 left a school addition unbuilt—and a Lake Union petition for 107 children pending.
- Thirty-Seven Miners Died 150 Feet From Safety
An 1894 coroner's jury in Franklin, Washington, heard how a small fire in the Oregon Improvement Company's coal mine became a wall of smoke — and why the men who could have escaped stayed to fight it.