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- The Jealousy That Shut Down a Shop: A Seattle Woman’s Fight for Livelihood
In 1888, a Seattle lumber shop owner saw her business destroyed not by market forces, but by the petty sabotage of her customers' wives. Her story reveals the fragile economic existence of women in the frontier city.
- The Industrial Hospital of the Frontier
In 1876, Dr. G.A. Weed opened a hospital in downtown Seattle to treat the rising tide of casualties from the region’s booming logging camps and mills.
- The First Engine: How One Machinist Built Seattle’s Heart
In April 1877, a local machinist named Mr. Bullene constructed the first engine ever built in Seattle for Stetson & Post’s new lumber mill, marking a pivotal moment in the city's industrial infancy.
- The Dealer in the Gambling Den
In the rowdy timber town of Sedro-Woolley, the local gamblers have found a unique way to keep the peace: replacing the standard rough-hewn card shark with a captivating young woman.
- Engineers Complete Survey for Lake Washington Ship Canal
In 1891, engineers surveyed the path for a ship canal to connect Lake Washington to the Sound, envisioning a future where vessels could cleanse their hulls of barnacles in fresh water and double Seattle's commercial capacity.
- The Struggle for the Curb: Seattle's 1892 Market Fight
A local letter to the editor highlights the class divide between city planners and the peddlers struggling to feed the city's residents.
- The Rent Crisis of 1892
How a post-boom construction surge finally brought relief to Seattle's cramped and overcharged renters.
- Umpire Mobbed in Seattle-Portland Baseball Feud
Passions boil over at a local amateur baseball match, leading to an ugly confrontation and a plea for sportsmanship.
- Walla Walla’s 1884 Sales Pitch: From a Tent Store to a ‘Metropolitan’ City
A reprinted commercial sketch boasts of wheat, railroads, gasworks and thousands of souls — and lets slip the town’s whole origin story, from a tent on Mill Creek to the great fire of 1866.
- The Murphy Temperance Crusade
Evangelist Francis Murphy visits North Yakima, leading hundreds to sign the pledge as the city contemplates a permanent temperance society.
- The Steamer That Vanished Into a Puget Sound Gale
A bitter cold snap and northeast gale kept boats at their wharves and raised fears that the Tolo had foundered between Eagle Harbor and Seattle.
- The Frontier Infirmary Built for Broken Bodies
As Seattle's industry boomed in 1876, one local doctor established a hospital specifically to treat the frequent, brutal injuries sustained in the region's rugged lumber mills and logging camps.
- The False Promises of the Arctic Gold Rush
An 1877 dispatch from Seattle warns local laborers that chasing get-rich-quick mining dreams in the North leads only to bankruptcy, while those who commit to farming the region’s soil build actual wealth.
- The Potato Famine That Never Left the Sound
A century and a half ago, Seattle farmers lamented the mysterious collapse of the Puget Sound potato trade, marking the end of a boom that once promised regional prosperity.
- The First Ordained Pastor in Snohomish
A landmark moment for the frontier town as the Presbytery of Puget Sound holds its first formal church installation in the region.
- The Denny Hotel Deal: How Seattle’s Elite Bought Their Way Into History
A canvas for stock subscriptions begins today to fund the city's first grand hotel. Dr. Minor and Mr. Collins lead the charge, urging property owners to invest in a project that promises to accommodate next summer's travel boom.
- A Coupeville Pioneer Takes His Own Life
Charles Crockett, a resident of Whidbey Island since 1854, is found dead at his home in a sudden and tragic suicide.
- Seattle Loses by Half a Length—and Wins the Lake
In August 1894, Seattle's first amateur regatta drew crowds to the Madison Street shore of Lake Washington for a four-oared thriller against Portland and Burrard Inlet. The home crew lost by less than half a length, but set a course record and gave the young city a new civic stage.
- Beauty Trends and Economic Betrayal
A critique of how the public's obsession with celebrity fashion distracts from the economic harm of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.
- The Walla Walla Jockey Club Faces a Quiet Track
Fall races opened with limited turnout and drama as horse owners boycotted the track, protesting rules they felt favored the establishment.
- The Conservation Debate: To Hunt or Protect?
Local sportsmen argue that keeping quail populations 'tame' and unhunted actually prevents them from multiplying, sparking a debate over wildlife management.
- A Sixty-Mile Ditch and a Railroad Over the Mountains: Seattle Money Goes East
Judge Lewis reports from Yakima: new banks, booming towns, and a plan by Seattle investors to reclaim 350,000 acres of desert with a canal — while 1,000 men push the Northern Pacific's Cascade Branch toward Snoqualmie Pass.
- The First Ice Factory Comes to Seattle
As Seattle prepared for a hot summer in 1882, the city broke ground on its first industrial ice plant to keep the town cool.
- The Perils of the Frontier: Seattle’s First Industrial Hospital
In 1876, Dr. G.A. Weed opened a medical facility explicitly designed to care for the victims of Puget Sound’s dangerous timber and milling industries.
- The Need for a Healing Haven in the Sawmills
Dr. G.A. Weed opens a hospital on Commercial Street to serve the broken bones and industrial injuries common to Seattle’s booming logging and mill camps.