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| Year | Stories |
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| 1858 | 1 |
| 1859 | 1 |
| 1861 | 1 |
| 1862 | 1 |
| 1872 | 7 |
| 1876 | 17 |
| 1877 | 14 |
| 1878 | 22 |
| 1880 | 5 |
| 1882 | 1 |
| 1883 | 10 |
| 1884 | 6 |
| 1885 | 8 |
| 1886 | 4 |
| 1887 | 4 |
| 1888 | 10 |
| 1889 | 28 |
| 1890 | 5 |
| 1891 | 17 |
| 1892 | 38 |
| 1893 | 31 |
| 1894 | 27 |
| 1895 | 34 |
| 1897 | 16 |
| 1898 | 32 |
| 1899 | 9 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1902 | 4 |
| 1903 | 52 |
| 1904 | 18 |
| 1905 | 14 |
| 1907 | 2 |
| 1908 | 10 |
| 1909 | 16 |
| 1910 | 9 |
| 1911 | 1 |
| 1912 | 2 |
| 1914 | 26 |
| 1915 | 27 |
| 1916 | 29 |
| 1917 | 23 |
| 1918 | 3 |
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| 1923 | 20 |
| 1924 | 11 |
| 1925 | 1 |
16 stories matching fruit
- The Fruit Feud: Oroville vs. Riverside
A war of words erupts between local newspapers over winter damage to orchard crops.
- The Fight Against 'Canned Water'
Everett labor organizers inspect local grocers to expose deceptive packaging and short-weighting in the canned fruit industry.
- Gold Medals and a Pitch for Stevens County Orchards
At Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Stevens County took top honors for grains and fruit—and its commissioner came home claiming local apples could beat Wenatchee and Yakima.
- The Great Cabbage Scandal
A citizen defends the public market against charges of unsanitary conditions, pointing the finger at local grocers instead.
- Portland Wins the Milwaukee Road—and the Yakima Valley Gets a New Town
A planned extension through the Ahtanum and Klickitat valleys would carry Oriental trade to the Columbia, tap fruit and wheat country, and redraw the map south of North Yakima.
- The Battle for the Curb
A local grocer and a city official are clashing over the rights to a narrow strip of land outside the public market.
- Tacoma’s Public Market Finds Its Feet
City report confirms that the municipal public market is paying down its initial debt and thriving with a diverse range of local vendors.
- The Monopoly of Life and Labor
An editorial questioning the morality of the super-rich funding medical research while their monopolies squeeze the working class.
- The Great Border Horse Smuggling Escape
A persistent carpenter tries to outrun the law through a blind canyon to avoid customs duties on his prize stallion.
- A Killing Winter
A brutal freeze destroys orchards and crops, threatening the livelihoods of settlers across Okanogan County.
- City Council Squeezes Out the Public Market
Tacoma’s city government moves to dismantle the D Street market, bowing to pressure from a grocery monopoly.
- The Perils of a Modern Diet
A local column warns Tacoma residents that the 'great national vice' of gluttony and poor food combinations is endangering public health.
- Friday Night Fights: Newport's Main Street Turns Into a Boxing Ring
A carnival of brawling broke out last Friday, with two railroad camp workers arrested for holding prize fights on the main street and two others charged with assaulting an old man. The jail could have held only a quarter of the crowd.
- Sixteen Paupers, a Clay-Bed Well, and a Farm Not Fit to Live On
County commissioners tour the county poor farm and find cracked fences, filthy bedding, horses bleeding on barbed wire and water unfit to drink. The old place will be sold, they say — but only if a poor farm is worth having at all.
- Eight Days, $7 Million in Requests, and a Labor Agenda Left to Die
Washington's 1909 legislature entered its final week with appropriations far outrunning revenue, more than 30 liquor bills pending, and nearly every labor measure quietly sidetracked.
- An Apple Expert Bets on Newport’s Benchlands
A Yakima horticulturist tours the Cedar Park orchard tracts and predicts the valley’s apple country is assured.