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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1928 | 14 |
| 1929 | 17 |
31 stories
- A Filipino Editor Fires Back at Arthur Brisbane Over Philippine Independence
When the great American columnist claimed Filipinos had abandoned their fight for freedom over a sugar tariff, the Filipino Forum answered: courtesy to a departing governor is not surrender.
- A Clubhouse for Community: Filipino Seattleites Organize to Buy a Home Base
The University Filipino Club moves toward purchasing a lot and house, seeking a permanent space to solve 'serious problems' together—not to separate from the city but to meet it.
- Broke at the End of Every Cannery Season: A Filipino Columnist's Plea for a Savings System
Writing for Seattle's Filipino community in 1928, Macario C. Rebodos traces the hard cycle of Alaskan cannery work and agricultural harvests — money earned, money spent, and pawnshops waiting at the end of it — and argues that an endowment policy is the only discipline that will break it.
- The Chinese Girl Barred From the Y.W.C.A. Pool
In a 1926 essay, a Chinese writer catalogues American prejudice—segregated Y.M.C.A.s, a church donor’s daughter turned away from a swimming pool, and lecturers who twist China to fit their biases.
- A Filipino Writer Confronts Exclusion — and the Seattle Times — in 1926
A local column challenges a Filipino student's call for exclusion, calls for cross-racial labor solidarity in the Pacific Northwest, and rebuts the Seattle Daily Times on Philippine independence.
- Seattle's Filipino Progress Association Elects Its First Officers
A new civic organization installs a president, a board of managers and a six-month plan — and its leaders argue that running a community association is training for running a government.