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3 stories matching sit
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:site, sitz, sitka, sensit, sitkum, sitter
- The Filth on Ritzville's Back Streets
A stern warning to city officials and residents that neglected alleys are brewing a public health crisis for the summer months.
- The Water Belongs to the People—Not the Syndicates
A.M. Stevens of Ellensburg warns that handing arid lands to the states is the first step toward private control—and argues the federal government must build the reservoirs.
- The Debts a Country Owes Its Farmers — and Its Farmers' Wives
An 1898 farm-column editorial tallies what rural Washington neglects: untrained road supervisors, school directors so illiterate the legislature had to bar them, and farm women who never see a newspaper or a neighbor.