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| Year | Stories |
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| 1854 | 8 |
| 1858 | 6 |
| 1859 | 4 |
| 1860 | 4 |
| 1861 | 10 |
| 1862 | 11 |
| 1863 | 6 |
| 1864 | 4 |
| 1865 | 2 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 11 |
| 1876 | 115 |
| 1877 | 89 |
| 1878 | 59 |
| 1879 | 5 |
| 1880 | 20 |
| 1882 | 18 |
| 1883 | 101 |
| 1884 | 61 |
| 1885 | 90 |
| 1886 | 36 |
| 1887 | 45 |
| 1888 | 77 |
| 1889 | 142 |
| 1890 | 26 |
| 1891 | 153 |
| 1892 | 287 |
| 1893 | 269 |
| 1894 | 376 |
| 1895 | 487 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 13 |
| 1898 | 29 |
| 1899 | 83 |
| 1900 | 13 |
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1903 | 116 |
| 1904 | 103 |
| 1905 | 11 |
| 1907 | 11 |
| 1908 | 93 |
| 1909 | 195 |
| 1910 | 48 |
| 1911 | 11 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1914 | 26 |
| 1915 | 31 |
| 1916 | 43 |
| 1917 | 30 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1923 | 19 |
| 1924 | 15 |
| 1925 | 7 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 9 |
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- State Orders Everett Cannery to Pay Its Women
Washington's industrial welfare committee demands the Everett Fruit Products Company raise piece rates for several hundred women earning below the legal minimum.
- Illegal Salmon Become Christmas Dinner for the Needy
A thousand pounds of confiscated salmon from five Grays Harbor fishermen and a meat market feed families in Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Seattle.
- The Kid of the Wheat Fields
A rookie farm hand shares a vivid account of the grueling, back-breaking labor of the Big Bend harvest.
- Labor Blames Railroad's Strike Replacements for a Deadly Wreck Near Everett
After three die in a Great Northern crash north of Everett, the State Federation of Labor tells federal regulators that the road's non-union replacement crews are running unsafe equipment — and that the government shares the blame.
- A Fruit Co-op’s Creditors Step In as the Trains Stop Running
The Wenatchee Valley Fruit Exchange, with a warehouse in White Bluffs, was taken over by creditors after a car shortage and a Great Northern embargo stranded shipments.