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- The War Department’s Secret List: Why Washington Was Ignored
A Montana Senator reveals that federal supply contracts are being diverted from Seattle to San Francisco due to 'unsatisfactory' local facilities and inflated railroad rates.
- The Fight for a Practical Highway
Local farmers and business owners clash with state planners over the expensive materials chosen for the Kennewick-Finley road.
- The Great Western Rate War
A former railroad commissioner warns that a price-cutting war between transcontinental rail lines is hemorrhaging millions in revenue and paralyzing local shipping.
- City Council Clashes Over Paving Failures
A stalled Pacific Avenue paving project sparks a fiery city council debate over contractor accountability and city ordinance violations.
- The Monopoly of Life and Labor
An editorial questioning the morality of the super-rich funding medical research while their monopolies squeeze the working class.
- The Great Beef Price Drop of 1893
Wholesale cuts fall to record lows, making meat affordable for the city's working poor during the lean winter.
- The Bid for a Government Power Giant
Senator Poindexter eyes Priest Rapids as the potential site for a massive $20 million federal nitrate and munitions facility.
- The Fight for Cheaper Calls
City council debates regulating telephone rates and forcing lines underground in a push to modernize Seattle's infrastructure.
- The Great Crew Shortage of 1887
Facing a labor scarcity and rising costs, Seattle ship owners considered an radical, cost-cutting plan to import crews from the East Coast.
- Potato Prices Plummet as San Francisco Shipments Arrive
Local farmers see prices drop by two dollars a ton as West Street merchants shift to cheaper California imports.
- Seattle Schools Slash Budgets Amid Financial Panic
Facing high fuel costs and the economic strain of 1893, the school board cuts teacher salaries for sick leave and consolidates classes.
- The Tacoma Wharfage War
A passenger steamship line faces a bitter blockade after refusing to inflate prices to protect Northern Pacific rail interests.
- The Great Transcontinental Rail and Steamship Rate War
Seattle merchants scramble to capitalize on a cutthroat battle between the Southern Pacific railroad and the Columbian Steamship Company that threatens the stability of Northern transit lines.
- The Home Market Fight: Farmers Say Seattle Merchants Look Past Their Own Fields
A Port Angeles farmer’s letter to the Post-Intelligencer argues that Seattle merchants undercut local growers by buying from California, Oregon, and Chinese gardeners—and warns that the city’s food economy is bleeding money out of Washington.
- The Fight for Public Power
Seattle municipal power superintendent J. D. Ross defends the controversial Bone Bill in White Bluffs, arguing for cheaper rates through public competition.
- The Shadowy Fight Over Tacoma's Telephone Monopoly
Councilmen accused of catering to the Sunset Telephone company while ignoring constituent demands for fair rates.
- Prison Labor and the Jute Famine
War-era scarcity triggers a 100 percent price hike for grain sacks manufactured at the state penitentiary.
- A Railroad and a Tide-Flat Fight: Who Gets to Fill Smith's Cove?
Great Northern objected to a plan by W. F. Hayes and Frank Shay to fill the tide flats between Pike Street and Smith's Cove, setting up a hearing over who controls Seattle's shoreline.
- The Whaler That Never Was: A Yankee Betrayal of Puget Sound
In 1877, a local newspaper exposed how Boston shipbuilders stole a lucrative contract from Seattle’s own yards, ignoring the region's superior timber and strategic advantage for whaling.
- Tacoma’s North End Demands Cheaper Streetcar Fares
Local neighborhood club pushes for universal ticket sales on cars to lower costs for daily commuters.
- Priest Rapids Dam License Brings White Bluffs a City Dream
A century ago, boosters dreamed of a massive industrial city on the Columbia, promised by the General Electric Company as a 'second Niagara Falls.'
- Engineering a Solution for the Fourteenth Street Slide
City Engineer Thomson outlines an expensive plan to halt the recurring, dangerous earth movements in the Beacon Hill district.
- The Great Fleet of the Northwest
As Seattle's harbor crowds with vessels, a maritime shift signals a new era for local tugboat commerce.
- The Highlands Call to Action
A local correspondent challenges Kennewick women to show their 'political sense' by voting in the upcoming primaries.
- The Coming of 'War Bread'
Federal authorities mandate a shift in milling standards as Washington residents are warned to prepare for lower-grade flour and higher prices.