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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 1 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 2 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 7 |
| 1876 | 25 |
| 1877 | 29 |
| 1878 | 7 |
| 1880 | 5 |
| 1882 | 1 |
| 1883 | 18 |
| 1884 | 10 |
| 1885 | 19 |
| 1886 | 12 |
| 1887 | 5 |
| 1888 | 8 |
| 1889 | 27 |
| 1890 | 3 |
| 1891 | 32 |
| 1892 | 54 |
| 1893 | 55 |
| 1894 | 90 |
| 1895 | 94 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 4 |
| 1898 | 7 |
| 1899 | 18 |
| 1900 | 2 |
| 1902 | 3 |
| 1903 | 35 |
| 1904 | 30 |
| 1905 | 4 |
| 1907 | 9 |
| 1908 | 22 |
| 1909 | 51 |
| 1910 | 13 |
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| 1915 | 7 |
| 1916 | 17 |
| 1917 | 13 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1925 | 3 |
13 stories matching regular
- The Price of Immunity
Three Seattle officers face indictment for allegedly accepting regular bribes from women in the underworld to guarantee protection from arrest.
- The Trial of James F. Logan
A murder trial in Colville stalls as the court struggles to find an impartial jury among citizens who have already read the details in the press.
- Everett Labor Council Reports Progress on Unionizing Local Theaters and Shops
The Everett Trades Council secures a victory for stage employees and retail clerks while donating to the orphans' home.
- Union Man Appointed as County Road Supervisor
Thomas C. Fleming names carpenter and labor leader Steve Mitchell to a key county road position, signaling political influence for Everett workers.
- Newport’s Financial Reckoning
Facing a mounting deficit and unpaid warrants, the town council moves to put a bond measure before voters to keep the lights on.
- Newport City Council Faces Financial Crisis
With only $130 in monthly tax revenue and $3,000 in outstanding warrants, the newly seated council struggles to keep the town afloat.
- Who Polices the Strikers?
Everett labor leaders demand transparency after discovering private companies were deputizing their own strike-breakers as law enforcement.
- Everett Labor Leaders Call Out 'Unfair' Businesses
The Everett Trades Council grills a city councilman over labor-friendly ordinances and publicly condemns a local hotel for hiring non-union immigrant labor.
- Everett Labor Temple Organizes for the New Year
Newly elected leadership and local unions report on growth, employment gains, and a new initiative to ensure attendance at council meetings.
- The Boxcar Full of Washington: Selling the Evergreen State to the East
A Great Northern exhibit car of glass-jarred fruit has toured 10,000 miles through the East, drawing 100,000 visitors and closing schools so pupils could see what Washington grows — all part of Louis W. Hill's campaign to lure settlers west.
- Fifty Citizens Ask the Railroad to Let Them Cross Their Own Main Street
Newport's council petitions the Great Northern to open Fourth Street over its tracks — but the company's prior right-of-way may make a condemnation suit the only way through.
- The Conquest Mine Strikes a Twelve-Foot Vein—and Newport's Mining District Wakes Up
A rich assay at the Conquest mine promised dividends, new work and a revival for the Pend Oreille mining district.
- A Judge Tells Spokane's Restaurant Men Their Strike Injunction Is Worthless
Judge J. Stanley Webster refused to restrain the cooks' and waiters' union, upheld the right to strike and to publish 'union house' cards — a rare courtroom win for organized labor in 1910.