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38 stories matching moral
- The Divided Skirt Comes to Seattle
Young women adopt the 'Boston rational suit,' braving ridicule and finding recruits at the university and high school.
- Tacoma’s Epworth League Wants the Bible in Public Schools—and the Saloons Gone
A thousand church reformers gathered in Tacoma planned a moral crusade against liquor and for Bible reading in the public schools.
- Spokane’s Moral Crusade Against Dance Halls
Local reformers and the Ministerial Association launch a petition drive to ban dance halls and variety theaters from the city.
- The Pulpit vs. the Tax Assessor: Seattle Pastor Fights a Bill to Tax Church Property
Rev. Clark Davis told his congregation that a proposed state law would punish churches for doing the state's moral work—and warned that saloons and 'unbelievers' were cheering it on.
- A Unanimous Vote to Push Women Out of the Beer Halls
The Washington House backed a bill barring women from working anywhere intoxicating liquor was sold—aimed at waitresses and 'beer rulers' in variety theaters and saloons.
- Spokane Judge Rejects a Cut-Rate Pauper Burial Contract
A county deal that paid a premium on each pauper's grave is struck down as against public policy—even after another bidder offered to bury the dead for a penny apiece.
- A Woman Challenges Seattle's New Morality Ordinance
Rose Tetler, convicted as a 'disorderly person,' pleads double jeopardy while her husband is charged with living with her.
- Ballard’s War on 'Street Education'
A local councilman proposes a curfew to keep children off the streets, fearing the 'evil habits' they might pick up after dark.
- Seattle Slams the 'Ladies' Entrance' on Saloons
After a 2,500-name petition, the city council orders saloons to keep one street entrance and bars the screened side doors and signs that drew women in.
- From the Pulpit, a Pastor Takes Aim at Tacoma's Mayor
Rev. Dr. Dean Richmond Babbitt compares Mayor Orr to a Roman official who looked the other way, jeers at 'brass-buttoned police' and warns the mayor he could be prosecuted for letting the law be broken.
- A Dry Petition, a Waterworks Deal and a Stolen Wheelbarrow
Four hundred Ballard residents want the saloons shut from Saturday midnight to Monday morning. A councilman says the whole thing is spite over the city's purchase of the water plant — and the council buys the water plant anyway.
- A Box Factory Where Every Worker Gets One Share and the Same Pay
Articles filed in Seattle create a cooperative woodworking company whose profits belong to the corporation, not its stockholders, and whose members all earn the same wage.
- Sudden Death of a Civic Leader: Seattle Mourns George H. Heilbron
A prominent newspaperman's unexpected passing prompts a sermon on mortality, a city funeral, and closed banks.
- A Surveyor's Delay, a Land Office Snarl, and Four Dead Men in Okanogan
Settlers near Loomis have waited years for their homesteads to be platted and put on the market while paperwork sat unfinished in Washington — and in the meantime, four men have been killed fighting over boundary lines nobody could settle.
- After the Page Trial, Seattle Asks Why Every Man Carries a Revolver
An editorial demands an end to the city's gun-carrying habit, arguing that petty disputes end in bloodshed because half the town is a walking arsenal.
- A Judge Calls the County-Seat Law ‘Nefarious’
Judge Ballinger dismisses Snohomish’s appeal over moving the county seat to Everett, blasting officials for defiance and the legislature for a law that leaves the court powerless.
- The Mayor Clears the Room: Phelps Fires a Fire Commissioner and Stares Down a Coup
When Fire Commissioner Masel and two allies tried to break Chief Allen on a trumped-up morals charge, Mayor Phelps suspended Masel for not being a freeholder — and the three commissioners walked out into the night.
- The Pastor Who Took His Whole Flock With Him
Rev. Allen W. Whaley, ousted from Seattle's Jones Street African Methodist Episcopal church, preaches to a packed hall on the university grounds and vows to have the matter 'sifted to the bottom.'
- Sold to the Highest Captain: Seattle’s Sailor Boarding-House Scandal
An editorial demands an investigation into Seattle’s sailor boarding houses, where men were allegedly lured into debt, beaten, and effectively sold to ship captains—and warns union organizers against using the same coercion.
- A $50-a-Month Gamble on Seattle’s Working Women
In 1895, the city’s young YWCA promised cheap lunches, job leads, evening classes and a trained secretary—if supporters could cover four months of her salary.
- A Populist Makes the Case for Paying Kittitas County's Debts
A letter from Ellensburg argues that the county's voters rejected repudiation and urges Eastern lenders not to confuse populism with default.
- The Library Was Not a Luxury
An 1895 editorial made the case that a free public library was civic infrastructure, not charity—and that starving it of funds betrayed the city's future.
- From a Blacksmith Shop to a Million Members: Seattle's AME Centenary
Rev. Allen W. Whaley traced 100 years of African Methodism from a Philadelphia blacksmith shop to a global church—and named the race prejudice that forced its founders out.
- Seattle's 1895 Police Chief Wanted Fewer 14-Hour Shifts—and More Control Over Opium and Newsboys
The annual report described a force stretched thin by budget cuts and proposed licensing pawnbrokers, druggists, newsboys, and garbage carts.
- Seattle's University Pleads for a Building Worthy of the State
An 1895 editorial makes the case that the University of Washington has outgrown its territorial-era quarters — and that the legislature must fund the new campus between Lake Union and Union Bay.