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| Year | Stories |
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| 1860 | 3 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1862 | 2 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1872 | 2 |
| 1876 | 22 |
| 1877 | 20 |
| 1878 | 7 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 4 |
| 1882 | 2 |
| 1883 | 15 |
| 1884 | 8 |
| 1885 | 19 |
| 1886 | 6 |
| 1887 | 8 |
| 1888 | 11 |
| 1889 | 34 |
| 1890 | 4 |
| 1891 | 11 |
| 1892 | 48 |
| 1893 | 44 |
| 1894 | 42 |
| 1895 | 31 |
| 1897 | 2 |
| 1898 | 6 |
| 1899 | 4 |
| 1900 | 4 |
| 1902 | 2 |
| 1903 | 13 |
| 1904 | 11 |
| 1905 | 3 |
| 1907 | 2 |
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1909 | 7 |
| 1910 | 11 |
| 1911 | 1 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1914 | 4 |
| 1915 | 2 |
| 1916 | 4 |
| 1917 | 6 |
| 1923 | 2 |
| 1924 | 1 |
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- Sixty Houses in One Season
Newport's 1908 ledger of construction: sixty residences raised or under way, a three-story hotel foundation at Washington and Second, and a lumber mill going up across the river.
- A Tragic Loss for the Women's Relief Corps
The local chapter mourns the death of a member killed in a dynamite explosion while processing a report of illness and community updates.
- The Rise of Artificial Stone
A local entrepreneur transforms Lynden's construction landscape with a new concrete block plant that promises to revolutionize architecture.
- The Town Hauls the Groom Home on a Baggage Truck
Charles Bell slipped off to Spokane to marry quietly. Two hundred neighbors had other plans — and a mule, cowbells and a slasher saw.
- County Printing Contract Sparks Legal Fight
Stevens County commissioners award the county printing contract to the Colville Examiner, but a rival paper sues, alleging the process was unfair.