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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 1 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 4 |
| 1861 | 3 |
| 1872 | 3 |
| 1876 | 35 |
| 1877 | 19 |
| 1878 | 9 |
| 1879 | 5 |
| 1880 | 4 |
| 1882 | 2 |
| 1883 | 26 |
| 1884 | 10 |
| 1885 | 23 |
| 1886 | 11 |
| 1887 | 19 |
| 1888 | 15 |
| 1889 | 47 |
| 1890 | 10 |
| 1891 | 37 |
| 1892 | 64 |
| 1893 | 31 |
| 1894 | 43 |
| 1895 | 69 |
| 1897 | 4 |
| 1898 | 8 |
| 1899 | 14 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1903 | 33 |
| 1904 | 27 |
| 1905 | 2 |
| 1907 | 3 |
| 1908 | 12 |
| 1909 | 50 |
| 1910 | 7 |
| 1911 | 6 |
| 1912 | 3 |
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| 1923 | 4 |
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| 1925 | 2 |
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- A Rancher's Revenge: Peaches, Borers, and Everett's Blind Eye to Gambling
When Everett's fruit inspector condemned 40 boxes of a Pateros orchardist's peaches for pests, J. H. Partley fired back with a blistering question: why enforce the fruit laws to the letter while the city's gambling dens run wide open?
- 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.
- A Pioneer Stove Merchant Survives Fire, Panic, and a Receivership
Z.C. Miles arrived in 1870, rebuilt after the Great Seattle Fire, and joined forces with a young executive to create a coast-wide jobbing giant in stoves and electric supplies.
- One Can of Prunes, Five Carloads of Orders
A journalist-turned-farmer with ten acres of unsellable strawberries builds a canning business in Olympia — and discovers that a pretty label sells middle America on Puget Sound fruit.
- The 50-Year Marriage That Defied Poverty: A Spokane Woman’s Quest for Work
When a rural Washington couple faced ruin from debt and injury, the wife took a train to Spokane with nothing but her satchel and a fierce determination to earn her keep.