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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 2 |
| 1858 | 1 |
| 1859 | 1 |
| 1861 | 2 |
| 1862 | 2 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1872 | 5 |
| 1876 | 16 |
| 1877 | 6 |
| 1878 | 7 |
| 1879 | 2 |
| 1880 | 2 |
| 1882 | 3 |
| 1883 | 17 |
| 1884 | 12 |
| 1885 | 13 |
| 1886 | 6 |
| 1887 | 7 |
| 1888 | 5 |
| 1889 | 27 |
| 1890 | 4 |
| 1891 | 14 |
| 1892 | 26 |
| 1893 | 19 |
| 1894 | 48 |
| 1895 | 47 |
| 1898 | 4 |
| 1899 | 4 |
| 1900 | 1 |
| 1903 | 8 |
| 1904 | 3 |
| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 3 |
| 1909 | 9 |
| 1910 | 2 |
| 1911 | 3 |
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| 1923 | 1 |
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| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 1 |
5 stories matching sens
- The Sunset Years at Orting
A visit to the state's veteran home reveals a self-sustaining community of Civil War heroes, romantics, and chicken farmers.
- Mystery Attack on Teenager Near Church
A young girl is recovering in the hospital after she was found gagged and bound near the Presbyterian church in Hanford.
- 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.
- A Chinese Student's 1929 Speech Named the Racism Washington Tried to Forget
At the University of Washington's Cosmopolitan Club, Wesley Kai Hwa Kwang catalogued a century of anti-Chinese violence — including the 1885 killings in Squak Valley and the burning of Tacoma's Chinatown — and asked a white audience to account for it.
- Should Seattle Have a Filipino Labor Commissioner?
A 1923 community-paper debate pits a call for Filipino labor representation against a columnist who says the workers should simply go home.