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8 stories matching stimul
- The War on Flies
Richland's high school students join the Ladies' Civic Club to systematically combat the local pest population.
- Kennewick High School's War Effort
High school students create a statewide propaganda campaign to promote agricultural production and food conservation during World War I.
- The End of the Old Wallula Crossing
A historic Columbia River ferry, rendered obsolete by new competition, finds a second life upriver at White Bluffs.
- Lost in the Sagebrush: A Driver's Frustration
A traveler vents his anger at the lack of signage between Prosser and Kennewick, highlighting the perils of early automobile travel in the desert.
- The Town Takes Up the Drill
Thirty local men gather at the Knights of Pythias hall to master military maneuvers, driven by a newfound surge of community patriotism.
- Fourteen Sections of Timber and Twenty Miles of Track
The Panhandle Lumber Co. laid plans for a logging railroad up the Diamond Lake road from the wye west of Newport — six miles this summer, twenty in the end, and maybe a permanent line clear through to Spokane.
- Benton County Bets on Hogs, Corn and a Free Boar
Prosser's first annual Hog and Corn Show drew Kennewick crowds on the morning trains — and a warning that exclusive fruit raising would not carry the county forever.
- The Poor Man's Stump Burner: Newport Farmers Pack Kelly's Hall
In 1909, 150 farmers crowded a Newport hall to hear a state expert explain how to clear land by charring stumps—a low-cost method that promised to open Pend Oreille County fields.