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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 7 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 3 |
| 1860 | 1 |
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| 1863 | 1 |
| 1872 | 6 |
| 1876 | 30 |
| 1877 | 35 |
| 1878 | 45 |
| 1879 | 1 |
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| 1882 | 4 |
| 1883 | 15 |
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| 1887 | 15 |
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| 1889 | 32 |
| 1890 | 5 |
| 1891 | 34 |
| 1892 | 67 |
| 1893 | 76 |
| 1894 | 68 |
| 1895 | 86 |
| 1897 | 2 |
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5 stories matching describ
- Spokane Taxpayers Stage Telephone Strike
Thousands of residents have joined a coordinated refusal to pay increased utility rates following legal advice that the jump is not backed by state law.
- The Weirdest Baseball Game in White Bluffs History
An unusually high-scoring and error-prone contest between White Bluffs and Richland captures the town's attention.
- The Apple That Won the 'Nobel Prize' of Fruit
An Yakima Valley export earns the prestigious Wilder Medal for its exceptional quality and durability.
- The Land Commissioner Halts the Olympic Highway Land Rush
Speculators are lining up to snap up land along the new Olympic Highway, but State Land Commissioner C. V. Savidge says the state isn't selling yet.
- A Filipino Writer Confronts Exclusion — and the Seattle Times — in 1926
A local column challenges a Filipino student's call for exclusion, calls for cross-racial labor solidarity in the Pacific Northwest, and rebuts the Seattle Daily Times on Philippine independence.