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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 1 |
| 1858 | 7 |
| 1859 | 4 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1862 | 2 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1872 | 10 |
| 1876 | 43 |
| 1877 | 30 |
| 1878 | 9 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 11 |
| 1882 | 7 |
| 1883 | 43 |
| 1884 | 24 |
| 1885 | 41 |
| 1886 | 24 |
| 1887 | 27 |
| 1888 | 25 |
| 1889 | 46 |
| 1890 | 13 |
| 1891 | 52 |
| 1892 | 95 |
| 1893 | 83 |
| 1894 | 110 |
| 1895 | 167 |
| 1896 | 2 |
| 1897 | 3 |
| 1898 | 17 |
| 1899 | 29 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1902 | 2 |
| 1903 | 33 |
| 1904 | 26 |
| 1907 | 2 |
| 1908 | 15 |
| 1909 | 43 |
| 1910 | 14 |
| 1911 | 6 |
| 1912 | 4 |
| 1914 | 17 |
| 1915 | 8 |
| 1916 | 12 |
| 1917 | 7 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 4 |
| 1925 | 2 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 5 |
14 stories matching word
- The Miracle Cure-All
A traveling medical practitioner claims a bloodless breakthrough in Everett, drawing crowds and skepticism.
- Everett Grapples with Catastrophe
The community mourns as the city faces the grim aftermath of a disaster in the nearby Cascade Mountains.
- The Mine That Waits on New York
Rich ore was struck at the Conquest, but the pumps stay idle and the men stay home until eastern stockholders cable back their instructions.
- The Fading Ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic
Twenty elderly Civil War veterans observed Memorial Day in Lynden, marching with the local Woman's Relief Corps to honor the fallen.
- Labor Groups Mobilize Against Japanese Workers in Mukilteo
Everett labor leaders join forces with local clubs to push for the exclusion of Japanese employees from the Crown Lumber Company plant.
- Billy Sunday Draws a Crowd
Over 1,000 hopefuls packed Jamieson’s Opera House for the evangelist's visit, but most were left in the cold.
- Dutch immigrants celebrate their new American home
A heartfelt Fourth of July gathering in Spaan's Grove honored the United States with poetry and song, reconciling ancestral roots with American patriotism.
- Newport’s Booster Campaign
The local Commercial Club secures new members and funding to aggressively market the town's growth and resources.
- A Crowbar Through the Skull: The Mill Hand Nobody Heard in Time
John Krips, a 30-year-old laborer tearing down the old Spirit Valley mill, was killed instantly when a falling timber drove his own crowbar through his head. His body was shipped home to Minnesota.
- The Most Noted Killer in the West Sits Smoking His Pipe
Convicted of killing a woman and burning her body in a pine-log heap, James F. Logan waits out his appeal in a steel cell — cheerful, confident he'll never hang, and happy to receive the curious.
- A Schoolteacher's Last Note: 'God Knows I Am Not the Cause of This'
Rosa Baumberger, 24, came to Spokane from the Metaline schoolhouse and died by her own hand in a hotel room, leaving a note that insisted on her innocence and a friend who begged the papers not to stain her name.
- "Will You Help to Build the Fence?"
The Washington Children's Home Society launches a billboard teaser campaign to raise a $500,000 endowment — a novelty in the Northwest — likening itself to a fence that keeps children from falling over a cliff.
- State Inspector Calls the Idaho Washington Northern the Best Railroad in Washington
After a complaint about dangerous track north of Newport, a state inspector rode the line and pronounced it first-rate — and praised the railroad commission as a bargain for taxpayers.
- 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.