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321 stories matching progress
- Seattle's Street Grading Unearthed Native Remains—and Discarded Them
In 1876, as Seattle graded its streets, workers found the remains of dead Indians and disposed of them without ceremony. A local paper reported it as just another improvement.
- The Church Looks Toward Puget Sound
Methodist leaders convene in Vancouver to strategize church expansion and infrastructure across the Pacific Northwest.
- The Dredgers Are Coming: Seattle's Canal Project Finally Starts Moving
After years of financing delays, engineers promised to begin bulkheads and surveys on the south canal—and to haul giant hydraulic dredgers north to reshape the tide flats.
- The Price of Progress: Railroads Sue for Unpaid Pledges
The Port Townsend Southern Railroad begins a wave of test cases in superior court to force residents to pay for land subsidies they had previously promised.
- 1878 Seattle Grapples With Nationwide Money Shortage
While 1878 brought economic panic across the nation, Seattleites rejected the idea that their town was failing, pointing to local grit and coal-laden wharves as the true engines of progress.
- The City Council’s Late-Night Ordeal over Waterworks
A stormy session of the Seattle City Council lasted until after midnight as members wrestled with the city waterworks contract and debated the appointment of a new sanitary officer.
- A Farmers’ Paper Warns: Don’t Ship to This Commission Firm
Ranch and Range says the Washington Fruit and Produce Union left Tacoma accounts unsettled and is now trying to do business in Seattle.
- The Muddy Road to Greatness
As Seattle rapidly expanded in 1877, its editors lamented that the city’s commercial ambitions were literally stuck in the mud, demanding urgent infrastructure for a growing population.
- The Stench of Progress
A romantic carriage ride is cut short by the inescapable smell of a local slaughterhouse.
- Annie Besant and the Science of the Astral
A prominent Theosophist lecturer brings mystical discourse to the Seattle Theater, claiming that science confirms the existence of the 'astral body.'
- The Unwelcome Discovery at the Foundry
While excavating for a new skeleton for the foundry, workmen unearthed a human skull and long bones, a grim reminder of history beneath Seattle's industrial soil.
- The Price of a Pioneer Wardrobe
A look at the retail landscape in 1886 Seattle, where department stores were the primary civic meeting grounds and symbols of progress.
- The Mayor’s War on the 'Ring': A Candidate’s Plea for Clean Government in 1879 Seattle
Bernard Cossen runs for mayor not for power, but to stop wealthy landowners from hoarding public funds and blocking civic progress.
- The Price of a Tiny Needle Prick
A trivial accident at home turns into a harrowing medical ordeal for a Seattle woman.
- A Civil War General Campaigns for Washington Statehood
Visiting General Negley argues passionately before a Seattle crowd that the Territory's economic growth and population size make it long overdue for statehood.
- The Price of Progress: Arson in the Shadow of the Opera House
When an old commercial building was moved to make way for Seattle's new Opera House, a firebug turned the vacated structure into a torch.
- The Price of a Bad Poker Hand
A local gambler sues a Seattle saloon owner, claiming he was 'enticed and induced' into a high-stakes poker game that cost him a small fortune.
- The March on Washington
Seattle’s contingent of the Industrial Army prepares to depart for Washington D.C. by train, complete with yellow paper, drill squads, and a parade.
- The Lonely Plea of Miss Martha Bronson
An Eastern woman takes out a newspaper advertisement to find a husband in Washington Territory, declaring she is 'already grown up' and looking to build a life in the West.
- Seattle's Saloons Win the Right to Run All Night
A liquor-dealers' protest killed the 1 a.m. closing ordinance at City Council, even as aldermen and delegates fought over Phinney's Woodland streetcar franchise.
- The Promised Railroad Remains a Work in Progress
Construction delays plague the crucial Cascade branch, pushing completion dates into 1884 as thousands of workers await the call.
- The Shadowy 'Dynamiters' and the Battle for the Waterfront
Tensions in Seattle's labor landscape flare as authorities and rail unions clash over accusations of sabotage and secret 'death plots' targeting industrial progress.
- The First Mixed Jury in King County
A trial involving an allegation of child abuse marks a progressive, albeit controversial, first for the local court system.
- The City's Cruel Moral Crusade
While Seattle’s leadership touted its own 'progress,' a wave of arrests and displacement targeted the city's Chinese population and the vulnerable on the margins of society.
- Seattle Raises Half a Million in Hard Times for a Harbor and Canal Dream
A New York paper marvels that Seattle has secured a $500,000 subsidy for waterfront improvements and a canal linking Puget Sound with Lake Washington — most of the capital coming from St. Louis.