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195 stories matching meat
- The Great Thanksgiving Turkey Roundup
Local meat companies race to secure thousands of birds to meet regional demand for the holiday table.
- The State's War on 'Doped' Food
Washington's food commissioner launches an aggressive campaign against the use of poisonous preservatives in local meat, fish, and oyster supplies.
- Monopoly Comes to the Walla Walla Meat Market
Local business owners consolidate competing markets into a single corporation to dominate the regional trade.
- The Great Hog Debate: Local Farmers vs. The Packing Trust
A reader fires back at critics of local livestock brokers, exposing the tension between small-scale Benton County hog farmers and the massive meat-packing monopolies.
- The Formaldehyde Oysters That Sickened a Pullman Meat Market's Customers
A shipment of 'fresh' oysters left a trail of upset stomachs—and a state chemist found the preservative that did it.
- Midnight Blaze Levels Kennewick Meat Market
A stubborn fire likely sparked by faulty wiring or equipment ruins the local butcher shop, leaving the owner to contemplate rebuilding.
- Walla Walla Meat Company Plans Major Expansion
A new two-story packing house is coming to the Ennis farm to handle the city's growing demand for fresh meat.
- A Poisoner Walked Chewelah by Night, and Twenty Dogs Never Came Home
Poisoned meat was scattered indiscriminately through town on a Friday night. Fourteen dogs were dead by the next noon, nearly twenty by Sunday morning, and the owners put up a reward for a culprit who was never named.
- Spokane Thug Receives Fifteen-Year Sentence
A brazen criminal shows little remorse after being convicted of holding up a Union Park meat market.
- State Cracks Down on Butchers Doctoring Hamburger
Washington's Pure Food Commission has won convictions and fines against Seattle butchers who treated putrid meat scraps with chemicals, and more prosecutions are coming.
- Hunger and Petty Theft at the Packing House
Two young boys admit to raiding a refrigerator car, offering a glimpse into the desperate poverty of the city's youth.
- A 13-Year-Old Stole $7. He Got Five Years in Reform School.
A Springdale meat cutter's missing change led to a child's five-year sentence — a window into early-1900s juvenile justice.
- Survival in the Wynoochee Snow
Four hunters face starvation in the mountain snow, surviving for a month on nothing but elk and eagle meat.
- The Barber, the Boarder, and the Bad Meat
A Rosalia boarding house proprietor sues for $6,000 after a poet lampoons his culinary standards in the local paper.
- The Cudahy Packing Plant Fire
A catastrophic fire destroys a waterfront warehouse, turning tons of meat into a 'seething mass of flames.'
- Union Boycotts and Labor Organizing
The Everett Trades Council takes a hard line against non-union businesses and 'unfair' contractors in a display of organized labor's local muscle.
- The Great Seattle Fire Burned Their Meat Business. They Rebuilt It Bigger.
Three Montana cattlemen opened a Seattle meat plant just before the 1889 conflagration. Their building was reduced to ashes; within years they were running a regional slaughterhouse and feeding cattle by the thousands.
- A Butcher Builds a Slaughterhouse So Newport's Meat Money Stays Home
L. J. Kirchans of the Central Market has broken ground a mile west of town. His target isn't just local trade — it's the Spokane packers.
- 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 Patriotic Duty of the Pig
With the nation facing a severe meat shortage during the Great War, local agricultural officials pushed Benton County farmers to increase hog production, framing the effort as a vital sacrifice for soldiers.
- The Packing Plant That Wasted Nothing
At Meeker on the Seattle–Tacoma line, the Pacific Meat Company turned cattle, hogs and sheep into cured meat, sausage and fertilizer with almost no waste—and kept a small town working.
- A Meat Delivery Ends Beneath a Freight Train in Old Town
John Flynn, a 51-year-old sailor working odd jobs, was carrying beef to a barkentine when a Northern Pacific train backed over him at the foot of McCarver Street.
- Tacoma Cracks Down on Dirty Diners
A new health ordinance forces restaurants, fish markets, and milk stores to secure city licenses or face closure.
- A Cannery Comes Courting Puyallup Valley
Chicago investors scout the valley’s fruit crop, eye the old Pacific Meat Company building, and dangle $1,000 for a bridge at Sumner.
- The State Chemist Finds Formaldehyde in Canned Meats
Washington's State Food Commissioner moves to curb the use of dangerous preservatives in industrial food production.