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| 1854 | 1 |
| 1858 | 2 |
| 1859 | 5 |
| 1860 | 3 |
| 1861 | 9 |
| 1862 | 5 |
| 1863 | 5 |
| 1872 | 6 |
| 1876 | 49 |
| 1877 | 35 |
| 1878 | 21 |
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| 1882 | 8 |
| 1883 | 41 |
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| 1887 | 18 |
| 1888 | 21 |
| 1889 | 57 |
| 1890 | 10 |
| 1891 | 43 |
| 1892 | 97 |
| 1893 | 81 |
| 1894 | 112 |
| 1895 | 154 |
| 1897 | 6 |
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| 1900 | 2 |
| 1903 | 32 |
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| 1905 | 5 |
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| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 2 |
4 stories matching proper
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:properti, propel, prop, propens, prosper, roper
- The Struggle for a Road Out of White Bluffs
Community leaders mobilize across three counties to secure vital infrastructure for the valley.
- The Sweet Potato Boom in the Priest Rapids Valley
A local farmer turns a massive yield of 'red yams' into a commercial success story, challenging the belief that the crop belongs only to the South.
- The Fight for Hanford's Water
Local water right owners resolve to keep their legal battle for irrigation rights alive all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- The Price of Reckless Clearing
A brush-clearing fire near Yacolt spiraled into one of the Northwest's most catastrophic blazes, incinerating 23,000 acres and destroying $200,000 in property.