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| Year | Stories |
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| 1885 | 1 |
| 1888 | 1 |
| 1891 | 2 |
| 1892 | 5 |
| 1893 | 15 |
| 1894 | 6 |
| 1895 | 2 |
| 1899 | 2 |
| 1903 | 1 |
| 1904 | 2 |
| 1909 | 13 |
| 1910 | 9 |
| 1911 | 11 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1914 | 1 |
| 1916 | 3 |
6 stories matching weaver
- The Shingle Mill Girls of Cosmopolis
A local lumber mill defies labor union expectations by hiring a crew of women, sparking both ridicule and admiration on the Pacific Coast.
- Tension and Sabotage at the Shingle Mill
A labor dispute between union shingle weavers and mill operators descends into machine sabotage and unemployment.
- Ballard Mill Workers Win Wage Fight
After an attempt to cut pay, Ballard shingle mill workers successfully pressured owners to maintain the old wage scale.
- The Great Northern Hotel Burned to the Ground in Mount Vernon
A three-story frame hotel near the depot was gone within minutes, and twenty-five lodgers barely escaped with their lives.
- A Norwegian Teamster's Last Will: Despair, Disease, and a Sweetheart Left Behind
Fred Syvrud, a 36-year-old teamster, took his own life in a Seattle boarding house, leaving his property to a woman in Norway and blaming an incurable disease.
- A Walla Walla Pastor Defends the Prison's Sunday 'Boxing Bouts'
Rector W. Law writes to defend Warden Coblenz and the penitentiary's Sunday programs, insisting the glove contests that scandalized critics were gentler than a schoolyard game.