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| Year | Stories |
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| 1859 | 4 |
| 1860 | 1 |
| 1861 | 1 |
| 1862 | 3 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1872 | 4 |
| 1876 | 14 |
| 1877 | 15 |
| 1878 | 4 |
| 1879 | 2 |
| 1880 | 1 |
| 1882 | 4 |
| 1883 | 14 |
| 1884 | 5 |
| 1885 | 13 |
| 1886 | 10 |
| 1887 | 8 |
| 1888 | 6 |
| 1889 | 41 |
| 1890 | 5 |
| 1891 | 26 |
| 1892 | 41 |
| 1893 | 34 |
| 1894 | 41 |
| 1895 | 58 |
| 1897 | 1 |
| 1898 | 4 |
| 1899 | 11 |
| 1900 | 2 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 16 |
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3 stories matching period
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:peril, perin, perish, per, periton, perc
- The Passing of a Richland Pioneer
Mrs. Amanda McElvain, widow of the engineer who built many of the region's earliest irrigation canals, dies at home.
- The Blight at the Orchard Gate
A silent, ruinous disease is tearing through Kennewick’s orchards, and the local paper is calling for a community-wide mobilization to save the harvest.
- The Fruit Orchard Purge of 1916
As fruit growers in the Yakima Valley panic and rip out their orchards to plant alfalfa, one local paper warns that the cycle of boom and bust is as predictable as the rising sun.