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17 stories matching powder
- Tragedy at Cle Elum: Twelve Tons of Dynamite Explode
A catastrophic explosion at a mining magazine claims multiple lives, including a former Lynden pioneer.
- The 'Luck Powder' Swindle
A Seattle man is arrested for selling worthless 'luck powders' to women via mail order—and then suggesting they be used as laundry detergent.
- The Rare Earth That Could Take On the Powder Trust
A deposit near Blue Creek is promoted as a safer, cheaper ingredient for blasting powder—and as a way to loosen DuPont’s grip on the explosives trade.
- The Great Baking Powder Confidence Game
A charismatic stranger swindled Spokane canvassers out of their commissions, leaving them with piles of product and no pay.
- Fatal Dynamite Blast on Second Avenue
A Seattle contractor and his powder man face manslaughter charges following a reckless dynamite incident that killed a young boy.
- Explosion Injures Four Children Playing with Gunpowder
A tragic accident in Elma highlights the hidden dangers in household heating appliances during the early 1900s.
- Beauty Trends and Economic Betrayal
A critique of how the public's obsession with celebrity fashion distracts from the economic harm of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.
- The Tragedy of the Wood Shed
A miner's attempt to hunt a weasel in Northport leads to a catastrophic explosion that leveled his cabin.
- Five Tons of Powder, and an Earthquake Scare
A railroad crew's mammoth Sunday blast north of town shook every building in Newport — and convinced half the town the Spokane Chronicle's predicted earthquake had finally arrived.
- A Deadly Struggle in Bremerton
A man attempted to murder a local youth, but in the ensuing struggle, his own weapon turned against him with lethal consequences.
- Safe-Crackers Raid Dayton Saloon
Thieves bypass the law and a saloon vault, walking away with silver and a taste for the house's best whiskey.
- Corporate Lobbying Against Miners' Eight-Hour Day
A major mining company pays to bring immigrant miners to Olympia to lobby against the very labor protections intended to help them.
- The Fortune Teller's Change of Heart
A local clairvoyant, weary of peddling fake love charms to desperate women, finds an unexpected path to a simpler life.
- A Father’s Deadly Act at Riverside
On the same morning his daughter was born, a man took his own life and critically injured his toddler daughter in a shocking explosion.
- A Close Call at the Favorite Mine
A worker is nearly killed at the Favorite mine when a piece of waste quartz thrown from the dump strikes him in the throat.
- The Traveling Salesman Who Out-Wrestled a Footpad
When an armed robber tried to hold up a local salesman late at night, he found himself in a Greco-Roman wrestling match instead of an easy mugging.
- The Rockets Turned Around: Tacoma's Fourth of July Went Up in a Sheet of Flame
A spark touched off the entire $500 pyrotechnic stock at Wright Park, driving rockets and bombs into a crowd of thousands and leaving women and children burned, trampled and briefly lost in the smoke.