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6 stories matching ocean
- The Highway That Keeps Moving
For years, the state has been stuck in an endless legal fight with the Pacific Ocean over the ownership of beaches used as public roads.
- The Perilous Journey of Amos Burg, Jr.
A young adventurer takes on the treacherous rapids of the Columbia River in a small canoe, aiming for the Pacific Ocean.
- The River Viking: Amos Burg’s Treacherous Canoe Trip
A young adventurer navigates the Columbia’s most lethal rapids in a 17-foot canoe, documenting the wild river before it is tamed.
- Olympic Highway to Restrict Camping
Land Commissioner C.V. Savidge plans to mandate designated camping zones to protect state timber from fire risks along the new scenic highway.
- Six Sick Passengers Don't Justify Barring Six Hundred, Editor Tells the Times
After spinal meningitis strikes Filipino steerage passengers, the Seattle Daily Times wants the ships to stop carrying them. This paper calls that nonsense.
- Meningitis at the Docks: Seattle Turns Its Fear on Filipino Steerage Passengers
In the spring of 1929, a deadly outbreak of spinal meningitis aboard transpacific liners arriving in Seattle sparked a quarantine fight — and the city's health commissioner, the City Council, and the Seattle Daily Times all pointed the blame at the Filipino passengers themselves.