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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 13 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 6 |
| 1860 | 5 |
| 1861 | 10 |
| 1862 | 14 |
| 1863 | 4 |
| 1864 | 4 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1872 | 19 |
| 1876 | 61 |
| 1877 | 86 |
| 1878 | 32 |
| 1879 | 5 |
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| 1882 | 13 |
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| 1885 | 39 |
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| 1889 | 73 |
| 1890 | 13 |
| 1891 | 78 |
| 1892 | 101 |
| 1893 | 129 |
| 1894 | 130 |
| 1895 | 158 |
| 1896 | 1 |
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| 1898 | 10 |
| 1899 | 32 |
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| 1903 | 85 |
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| 1928 | 4 |
| 1929 | 2 |
3 stories matching inform
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- The Professor Who Gave Colour Photography Away for Free
An Oregon experiment-station scientist stumbles on a way to fix true flower colours permanently in a photographic print — then walks into Seattle and refuses to patent it.
- "You're Stealing Every Day": A Redmond Dairyman's Anonymous Cry
Writing to Seattle's dairy journal under a pen name, a Redmond farmer accuses the creameries of skimming pounds off every can of cream and getting rich on other men's cows — and the editor answers with a demand for a name he can prosecute.
- Five Years of Waiting: The Silver Rush That Never Was
Spokane’s mining elite face a bureaucratic delay that threatens to stall fortunes built on the promise of the Spokane Indian Reservation's mineral wealth.