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| 1854 | 2 |
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| 1865 | 1 |
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- Prehistoric Tooth Found Near Clarkston
Work crews excavating a pipeline near Clarkston stumble upon a six-pound mammoth tooth buried in the earth.
- The Struggle for the Soldier Settlement Project
Community leaders head to the coast to secure funding for the Priest Rapids Valley development.
- The Legion's Frustrated Ambitions for Valley Land
American Legion delegates seek to expand the local land settlement project, only to find the cost of pumping water may bury the plan.
- The State vs. The Oyster Poachers
Land Commissioner C.V. Savidge cancels a tide land deed in Hood Canal, setting a precedent that public oyster lands must serve the shellfish industry, not private real estate greed.
- Counting the Invisible: A Census of Filipinos in the Pacific Northwest
A 1929 study estimates roughly 7,000 Filipino workers scattered from Seattle to Alaska — and admits the numbers are guesswork, because many hid their identities from the people counting them.
- Can 840 Acres of University Land Become 42 Veterans’ Farms?
White Bluffs boosters asked the state university to sell 840 acres near Vernita at $10 an acre, arguing that settled farms would raise the value of the rest.
- When Seattle First Flew the Philippine Flag
A six-day Filipino fraternal convention fills Washington Hall, the Eagles Auditorium and the Olympic Hotel—and puts the Philippine flag over Seventh Avenue for the first time in the city’s history.
- 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.