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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 1 |
| 1858 | 1 |
| 1859 | 2 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 3 |
| 1862 | 3 |
| 1872 | 4 |
| 1876 | 24 |
| 1877 | 17 |
| 1878 | 12 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 5 |
| 1882 | 8 |
| 1883 | 23 |
| 1884 | 14 |
| 1885 | 23 |
| 1886 | 10 |
| 1887 | 12 |
| 1888 | 11 |
| 1889 | 21 |
| 1890 | 3 |
| 1891 | 24 |
| 1892 | 55 |
| 1893 | 35 |
| 1894 | 44 |
| 1895 | 76 |
| 1897 | 3 |
| 1898 | 13 |
| 1899 | 8 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1902 | 2 |
| 1903 | 18 |
| 1904 | 9 |
| 1905 | 1 |
| 1908 | 12 |
| 1909 | 24 |
| 1910 | 3 |
| 1911 | 2 |
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| 1918 | 1 |
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9 stories matching write
- The Streetcar Blues
A local editor skewers a poet's romanticized version of riding Tacoma's crowded, unreliable trolley cars.
- Forging Checks for Unrequited Love
A local laborer's desperate attempt to cope with a broken heart leads to a criminal spree.
- A Disappearance on East P Street
Friends fear foul play after a local shopkeeper vanishes on his way to England.
- The Power War on the White River
A citizen writes to the editor warning that corporate legal battles over water rights could stifle industrial growth for all of Tacoma.
- The Chain Gang Preacher is Back on the Loose
A notorious 'anarchist' reformer and jailbird, known for preaching to guards while in shackles, has been banished from Seattle and is expected to surface in Tacoma.
- The Christian Athlete: Military Encampment Keeps the Sabbath
Despite the lure of recreation, soldiers at the local encampment gathered for Sunday services and athletics at the YMCA tent.
- The High School Debate: A City’s Moral Geography
A leading clubwoman makes the case for converting a downtown hotel into a high school, arguing that exposure to the city’s bustle is part of a real education.
- The Produce Hustlers of Western Avenue
A newspaperman walks Seattle's commission district and finds winter vegetables, Yakima potatoes and shipments bound for Alaska, Asia and the East.
- A 1.5-Million-Acre Taking: The Colville Reservation Was About to Be Thrown Open
Federal officials and land agents anticipated a rush of white homesteaders into the southern half of the Colville Indian Reservation, framing Indigenous land as 'closed' and state growth as its natural destiny.