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36 stories matching nake

  1. The Great Escape: Professor Baldwin’s Spectacular Deception in Seattle

    In July 1876, a traveling spiritualist and escape artist took over Yeager's Hall, challenging the public to witness his 'human agency' escapes from handcuffs and pillories, exposing the mediums of the day as frauds.

    Jul 28, 1876The Daily IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyNightlife

  2. Gambler shot in Snohomish street row

    A night patrolman fired on a man who attacked him with a rolling pin after a rowdy disturbance near the local saloon.

    Nov 12, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSnohomish, Snohomish CountyNightlife

  3. A Confession Withdrawn, a Wife Dead: The Smokalem Mystery

    Jack Smokalem pleads guilty, then takes it back, as his daughter and coroners give conflicting accounts of his wife's violent death.

    Dec 30, 1903The Tacoma TimesTacoma, Pierce CountyTrue Crime

  4. The Fight for Life in the Depths

    A harrowing, vivid account of a fisherman's life-or-death struggle against a giant cephalopod, reprinted from Victor Hugo's 'Toilers of the Sea' in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

    Jun 20, 1885Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King County

  5. A Brothel Fire, a Woman Thrown From a Window, and a Logger Burned to Death

    A 5 a.m. blaze in Aberdeen killed one man and fatally injured a woman; a survivor jumped naked through flames to the street.

    Jun 3, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerAberdeen, Grays Harbor CountyDisasters · Nightlife

  6. The Gold Bonanza Beneath the Palouse

    On the headwaters of the North Palouse, two Farmington brothers struck a quartz ledge they say assays at more than $6,000 a ton — and they swear not one inch of it is for sale.

    Mar 30, 1900The Colfax GazetteFarmington, Whitman CountyFollow the Money · Boom & Bust

  7. "My Idol Is Broken": A Governor Denounces a Senator to His Face

    Miles C. Moore accuses John B. Allen of selling out an old friend to climb into the Senate, and prints the speech he says he delivered at Allen's headquarters.

    Nov 17, 1891The Olympia TribuneOlympia, Thurston CountyCity Hall · Scandal

  8. The Land Grab That Stalled Seattle’s Growth

    A local editorial warns that the Northern Pacific Railroad’s hoarding of millions of acres is strangling settlement and development in Washington Territory.

    Apr 24, 1877The Daily IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyFollow the Money

  9. The Shoe That Could Save Seattle: Why We Must Stop Exporting Our Hides to San Francisco

    An editorial in the Puget Sound Dispatch argues that Seattle’s economic survival depends on manufacturing its own boots and shoes locally, rather than shipping raw hides south for a 10% premium.

    Jan 27, 1877Puget Sound DispatchSeattle, King CountyBoom & Bust

  10. A Body in the Ashes at Rolling Bay

    An eyewitness to the coroner's inquest corrects the Post-Intelligencer's lurid account of a bullet-scarred, half-burned corpse found in a shack on Bainbridge Island — and lays out his own theory of an unsolved Kitsap County killing.

    Jan 15, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerRolling Bay, Bainbridge Island, Kitsap CountyTrue Crime

  11. He Kept a Dead Man's Skull as a Souvenir — and the Paper Printed the Story

    Writing from North Yakima in 1892, Milburn G. Wills recalls the 1855 volunteer campaign that broke the Yakama resistance — the forced marches, the starving commands, the men shot beside him, and the trophy he carried home.

    Apr 11, 1892The Olympia TribuneAhtanum Valley, Yakima, Yakima CountyExclusion & Resistance

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