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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 8 |
| 1858 | 1 |
| 1860 | 2 |
| 1861 | 11 |
| 1862 | 5 |
| 1863 | 7 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 8 |
| 1876 | 39 |
| 1877 | 33 |
| 1878 | 21 |
| 1879 | 10 |
| 1880 | 11 |
| 1882 | 12 |
| 1883 | 47 |
| 1884 | 28 |
| 1885 | 47 |
| 1886 | 30 |
| 1887 | 37 |
| 1888 | 21 |
| 1889 | 85 |
| 1890 | 18 |
| 1891 | 94 |
| 1892 | 196 |
| 1893 | 237 |
| 1894 | 149 |
| 1895 | 117 |
| 1897 | 6 |
| 1898 | 15 |
| 1899 | 22 |
| 1900 | 9 |
| 1902 | 2 |
| 1903 | 94 |
| 1904 | 67 |
| 1905 | 2 |
| 1907 | 2 |
| 1908 | 10 |
| 1909 | 51 |
| 1910 | 23 |
| 1911 | 15 |
| 1912 | 8 |
| 1914 | 17 |
| 1915 | 16 |
| 1916 | 19 |
| 1917 | 20 |
| 1918 | 2 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 11 |
| 1924 | 10 |
| 1925 | 6 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 2 |
10 stories matching note
- Miners’ Liens and a $20,000 Mortgage Land on the Spokane Lead Mines
A Michigan creditor and a Spokane lienholder pursue the Metaline district mining company over unpaid notes and laborers’ claims.
- Newport’s Bank Comes Through the Panic Still Paying Dividends
Directors of the First National Bank of Newport report a clean balance sheet, a 5 percent dividend and a 17 percent year despite the financial stringency.
- A Banker's Last Note: G. S. Thomas Dies by Poison in a Spokane Hotel
The cashier of Newport's First State Bank was found dead in the Colonial Hotel after months of strain over the bank's suspended payments and last-minute sale.
- Metaline Had No Telephone — and Newport Was Ready to Take the Deal
A veteran line builder asks Colville to back a countywide telephone company. If Colville hesitates, the paper notes, Newport will gladly step in.
- The Legacy of the Stickney Home
A look at the origins and daily life of the mission school for Nooksack children, established on a Nooksack River island.
- The County Seat Crowd Had Already Picked Its Winners
Colville's paper publishes the Republican slate for 1908, and Newport notices that the west side of Stevens County is once again after everything in sight.
- Fidelity Lumber Says the Mill Will Rise This Summer
A 25-million-foot sawmill across the Pend Oreille, a Great Northern spur, and a cable ferry: Newport's timber future looked certain in 1908.
- The Prosecutor's Record: 'Arrest on Suspicion, Investigate Afterwards'
A Stevens County election fight turns on the county's criminal docket — who jailed innocent men, and who got his convictions.
- A Palace on Rails Arrives in Newport
Idaho Washington Northern's new Pullman coaches—steam-heated, electric-lit and brass-trimmed—began service out of Newport, promising a new through line to Spokane.
- An Engineer Bets Newport Could Rival Spokane
A Spokane mining engineer reports on the Bead Lake and Conquest claims, arguing that capital, a concentrator and a five-mile rail spur could turn a dormant district into Newport’s future.