Research the archive
Narrow 27,002 newspaper stories by words, years, place, newspaper and subject. See when and where they ran, then download what you find.
Put a phrase in quotes ("rent strike") or leave a word out with a minus (strike -baseball). Old scans misspell names, so when little is found, near-spellings are offered.
Refine
Show the numbers
| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1859 | 1 |
| 1872 | 1 |
| 1876 | 1 |
| 1877 | 1 |
| 1878 | 2 |
| 1883 | 1 |
| 1885 | 1 |
| 1886 | 1 |
| 1889 | 1 |
| 1892 | 1 |
| 1893 | 4 |
| 1894 | 4 |
| 1895 | 5 |
| 1903 | 2 |
| 1904 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
28 stories matching paramount
- Fifty Shingle Men March Up the Hill—and Back Down Again
Seattle's shingle manufacturers spend a full day fixing prices, then panic and rescind the whole scheme in the final five minutes.
- A Funeral Crowd Calls for a Killer's Neck
Thousands filed past the bodies of Philipina Miller and her child as Seattle police rushed the accused murderer to the county jail to stop a lynching.
- The Forest Empire That Built Washington
A sweeping 1900 survey of the state's lumber industry counted billions of feet of standing timber, 250 sawmills, and $7 million a year in wages—proof that the trees, not the cities, came first.