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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 5 |
| 1859 | 2 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1862 | 2 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 4 |
| 1876 | 32 |
| 1877 | 26 |
| 1878 | 16 |
| 1879 | 2 |
| 1880 | 6 |
| 1882 | 5 |
| 1883 | 26 |
| 1884 | 22 |
| 1885 | 43 |
| 1886 | 10 |
| 1887 | 17 |
| 1888 | 17 |
| 1889 | 36 |
| 1890 | 3 |
| 1891 | 58 |
| 1892 | 89 |
| 1893 | 89 |
| 1894 | 122 |
| 1895 | 152 |
| 1897 | 5 |
| 1898 | 10 |
| 1899 | 23 |
| 1900 | 2 |
| 1902 | 2 |
| 1903 | 40 |
| 1904 | 26 |
| 1905 | 2 |
| 1907 | 3 |
| 1908 | 20 |
| 1909 | 45 |
| 1910 | 12 |
| 1911 | 6 |
| 1912 | 3 |
| 1914 | 7 |
| 1915 | 11 |
| 1916 | 8 |
| 1917 | 7 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 4 |
152 stories matching read
- The Old Indian Fighter Who Taught Himself to Read After Paralysis Took His Limbs
Jim Foley fought in the territory's early Indian wars, logged its woods for thirty years, and spent his last quarter-century as a ward of Snohomish County — where the old campaigner, unable to move, finally learned his letters.
- A Bible in Every Schoolroom? The Epworth League's Careful Campaign in Western Washington
Meeting in convention, Methodist delegates moved to demand Bible reading in the public schools — then softened the demand, and asked the legislature to put a constitutional amendment to a vote.
- Three Shots on a Palouse Sidewalk
A quiet read in a chair turns into a close-range family shooting when J. H. Hughes’s son-in-law opens fire.
- The Baker Who Left a Sign Reading 'Out Painting'
Christian Gutheil's morphine suicide and the cryptic notice on his Second Avenue bakery door.
- A Fraternal Greeting from Tacoma
The First Unitarian Society of Seattle welcomes its new pastor with a formal reception and a warm letter of solidarity from their sister church in Tacoma.
- When 'He' Also Meant 'She'
A uniform school bill ended legal doubts about women serving as county superintendents and school directors—and ordered that masculine pronouns in the school law include women.
- A touring tragedian tells Seattle's schoolgirls to put down 'Trilby' and read Shakespeare
Frederick Warde, in town to play Julius Caesar at the Seattle Theater, spends a Friday afternoon lecturing a packed house for the high school library — and is sent off with flowers and a standing ovation from the pupils.
- A Tenant, a Beam, and a Broken Window: Seattle's Rent Fight Turns Into a Siege
When a landlord tried to move a renter out on Chestnut Street, the dispute ended with a warrant read through a window and a defiant Joyce holding the fort.
- Spokane County Commissioners Fire Courthouse Superintendent, Demand Architect's Resignation
A dispute over incompetency and neglect of duty leads to a shake-up in the construction of the Spokane County courthouse.
- Who Gets to Run Seattle's Streetcars?
A proposed thirty-year franchise for the Consolidated Street Railway cleared its first reading at city hall, but fights over fares, paving and transfers were far from over.
- McGraw to Olympia: Cut Spending, Fix the Courts
With Washington $1.5 million in debt and revenues falling, the governor calls for retrenchment and warns that court costs shut the poor out of justice.
- Seattle and Spokane School Boards Fight a $10-per-Child Funding Bill
The two city boards petitioned the state Senate against the Rogers school bill, arguing that its per-capita apportionment discriminated against cities and dumped an unjust burden on urban taxpayers.
- Olympia’s Fight Over Who Should Judge the Cities
A bill to abolish municipal courts set Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane against one another—and exposed a dispute over whether justice could be run more cheaply by justices of the peace.
- The Newspaper Letter That Nearly Started a Fight in the Washington Senate
With the U.S. Senate election deadlocked in Olympia, a Pierce County senator read a rival’s letter aloud — and the chamber erupted over money, lobbyists, and borrowed favors.
- A Quiet Seattle Prospector Dies in a Hotel—and There Will Be No Inquest
John B. Conrad was found dying at the Grand Hotel; a friend from Seattle could offer no reason for suicide, and the case was closed without an inquest.
- Banker Bellinger's Revolt: The Railroad Bill and a Wheat Farmer's Wrath
A Palouse banker threatens to leave the Republican Party after the legislature fails to pass a railroad bill that would have saved him thousands in freight costs.
- When Seattle's Library Ran Out of Money
A $65 February appropriation against $400 in monthly expenses forces the library commission to close the circulating department and beg city council for relief.
- A Sealed Letter and a Fired Public Works Commissioner
Tacoma's mayor wants H. B. Mullen on the board of public works. The Populists want a week. And a hidden letter accuses the city attorney of mixing politics with a water-plant contract.
- The War on 'Fly-by-Night' Newspapers
A new legislative bill aims to stop cheap, unread newspapers from monopolizing municipal advertising contracts.
- The Governor Tells Olympia to Tighten Its Belt
In 1895, Governor McGraw used his message to demand retrenchment, railroad reform and a quick end to the U.S. Senate fight so lawmakers could get to the people's business.
- Seattle's School Board Votes $400,000 in Bonds—and Pockets the Audit Demand
The board funds a debt, hears charges that thousands were mismanaged, then lets an audit resolution die for lack of a second.
- Taxpayers vs. County Hall: The Municipal League's 1895 Revolt
A poorly attended Municipal League meeting still sent 200 taxpayers' signatures to the county commissioners, threatened impeachment, and fought over private counsel and school warrants.
- The Actress Who Became an Evangelist
At Seattle's United Presbyterian Church, Edith L. Peake recounted a life of books, unbelief and stage acting before a Moody and Sankey revival changed her course.
- The Feast of Lots: Seattle's Jewish Community Celebrates Purim with an Auction of Sacred Letters
At the Hinckley block, the Orthodox congregation dedicated a new Torah scroll and auctioned off its letters to fund education.
- 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.