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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 1 |
| 1858 | 1 |
| 1859 | 3 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1862 | 5 |
| 1864 | 1 |
| 1872 | 4 |
| 1876 | 31 |
| 1877 | 18 |
| 1878 | 7 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 2 |
| 1882 | 3 |
| 1883 | 29 |
| 1884 | 17 |
| 1885 | 25 |
| 1886 | 17 |
| 1887 | 20 |
| 1888 | 21 |
| 1889 | 29 |
| 1890 | 6 |
| 1891 | 20 |
| 1892 | 92 |
| 1893 | 93 |
| 1894 | 77 |
| 1895 | 77 |
| 1897 | 4 |
| 1898 | 6 |
| 1899 | 11 |
| 1900 | 3 |
| 1903 | 25 |
| 1904 | 15 |
| 1905 | 1 |
| 1908 | 2 |
| 1909 | 25 |
| 1910 | 7 |
| 1911 | 4 |
| 1912 | 1 |
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1915 | 8 |
| 1916 | 7 |
| 1917 | 7 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 2 |
| 1924 | 3 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1929 | 3 |
25 stories matching conclud
- The Price of Opening a Street
A condemnation battle concludes, clearing the way for the extension of Center Street.
- The Price of a Molson Brawl
A local judge weighs the cost of dignity in a small town altercation.
- The Union Hat Inspection
Everett shingle weavers take a stand to enforce union purchasing power.
- Supreme Court Rules Against Interurban Line in Fatal Collision
A long-standing legal battle concludes as the court upholds an $18,000 judgment for a 1906 tragedy on the interurban line.
- City Council Plays Hardball with Rail Magnate
Tacoma officials force James J. Hill to build depots in exchange for a multi-million dollar franchise.
- Tacoma's Chinese Community Welcomes the New Year
A small group of twenty-five celebrates the Lunar New Year with traditional customs, despite the lack of a formal Chinatown.
- The Union Label Inspection
Everett shingle weavers form a committee to enforce labor solidarity by auditing the hats of their fellow workers.
- Japanese Cabinetmakers Arrive in Seattle for A.-Y.-P. Exposition Despite Labor Exclusion Laws
Ten skilled Japanese workmen are granted special entry to build the Japanese exhibit, highlighting the complex intersection of immigration policy and international spectacle.
- A Heartbreaking Departure for Reform
A teenage girl thanked the judge who sentenced her to a reform school in Chehalis for stealing clothes.
- The Odd Fellows' Grand Display
Despite a drenching rain, a thousand Odd Fellows marched through downtown Tacoma to celebrate the 90th anniversary of their order.
- Tacoma’s War on Rubbish
The Anti-Compulsory Vaccination society leads a citywide cleanup campaign, deputizing police to hunt down vacant-lot litter.
- The Puyallup 'Dry' War Turns to the Grand Jury
A simmering conflict between local factions erupts into a legal investigation, with druggists under fire for allegedly selling liquor in a 'closed town.'
- The Shingle Weavers' Mobile Union Strategy
When the workers couldn't come to the union meeting, the union decided to bring the meeting to the woods.
- Bringing the Union to the Woods
Facing isolation and declining membership, Snohomish County shingle weavers pioneered a district-based organizing strategy to reach workers in remote mills.
- Labor's Vision for Industrial Schools
A landmark American Federation of Labor report advocates for public vocational training as a remedy for 'industrial misfits,' emphasizing that the future of the American worker depends on training both hand and brain.
- Congressman Cushman's Nepotism Scandal
Federal judicial appointments in Tacoma stall as local power brokers favor family over public endorsement.
- Tacoma Grand Jury Indicts Mayor and Officials Over 'Social Evil' District
A sweeping probe into city vice and municipal corruption concludes with calls for reform and the indictment of the mayor.
- The Depot That Took Twenty Years
A steam shovel finally broke ground for Tacoma's new Northern Pacific station, ending two decades of promises.
- White River Valley Riders Boycott the Interurban Over a Fare Hike
Residents between Seattle and Tacoma refuse to ride, picket stations, and invite the same 'conspiracy' charge that organized labor faced in the Buck's Stove boycott.
- Kansas Lumbermen Buy the Eagle Mill and Bet on Newport
Moeser Bros. of Topeka take over the idle sawmill south of the Great Northern depot, promising a planing mill, timber holdings and a steady run.
- Nine in Ten Convicts Blamed on Whisky
A Walla Walla prison chaplain's letter gives Washington's temperance movement its starkest statistic—and a bill for the saloon.
- Every Hospital Turned Him Away, So the Health Officer Decided to Open One Himself
A contagious patient with nowhere to go, a council that won't pay its bills, and a health commissioner who dug up a forgotten ordinance and stopped asking permission.
- Ten Thousand Pamphlets and a Depot Deferred to Spring
Newport's boosters open a showroom on Third Street, print the best advertising booklet in the territory — and then agree to stop nagging the Great Northern about a station.
- The Valley the Kalispel Never Ceded
A federal allotting agent explains how the Kalispel Valley was divided into individual parcels—after much of it had already been treated as public domain and claimed by white homesteaders.
- Olympia Moves to Outlaw the Insanity Defense — and Gag the Press on Murders
With the 1909 session half gone, Washington's legislature advances local option and an anti-racetrack gambling bill, while a sweeping new criminal code would strip juries of the insanity plea and bar newspapers from covering homicides before trial.