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| Year | Stories |
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| 1860 | 3 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1862 | 2 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1872 | 2 |
| 1876 | 22 |
| 1877 | 20 |
| 1878 | 7 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 4 |
| 1882 | 2 |
| 1883 | 15 |
| 1884 | 8 |
| 1885 | 19 |
| 1886 | 6 |
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| 1888 | 11 |
| 1889 | 34 |
| 1890 | 4 |
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| 1892 | 48 |
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| 1894 | 42 |
| 1895 | 31 |
| 1897 | 2 |
| 1898 | 6 |
| 1899 | 4 |
| 1900 | 4 |
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| 1903 | 13 |
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| 1923 | 2 |
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- The 'Deviled Butter' Scandal That Cost Washington Dairies $19,000
A Pennsylvania ruling against rebranded 'renovated' butter prompts Washington dairy men to demand honest labeling for a cheap industrial substitute flooding Seattle markets.
- The Dairy King of the Northwest
How a Seattle entrepreneur consolidated the regional dairy market by centralizing production and expanding into international trade.
- Every Street a Sled Trail: Seattle Breaks in Dog Teams for the Klondike
In the winter of 1898 the thoroughfares of the Sound cities turned into training grounds — sleds, go-devils and sail-carts everywhere, companies buying and selling sled dogs at $25 to $100 a team, and one man solemnly breaking in a team of billy goats.
- The Sheriff’s Refusal to Arrest a Gun-Toting Reveler
A town rumor alleges local officials were too intimidated to confront an armed man in a Ritzville saloon, sparking a fierce editorial debate on equity before the law.
- The $100 Cannery: Whatcom Farmers Learn to Preserve Their Own Harvest
A traveling demonstration in Laurel and Nooksack City showed growers how to solder, seal and process fruit—and argued that small local canneries could outlast the timber boom.
- The Palouse Wheat Boom Was a Gold Mine—Until the Debt Came Due
An agricultural professor traces the Palouse’s speculative wheat economy: inflated land purchases, the rain-ruined crop of 1893, the panic that followed, and the sudden recovery by 1897.