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- The Silent Iodine Deficiency
A visiting physician warns that Yakima Valley's water supply contributes to widespread goiter, urging families to adopt iodized salt.
- Ione Drew Its New Town Limits—and Left the Bridge Bill Outside
Incorporation planners included the boarding houses and shoreline but excluded objecting landowners, partly to avoid making the new town pay for a Big Muddy crossing.
- The Porch Light Intervention
A romantic evening on Snohomish's Piety Hill is brought to a splashy, unceremonious end.
- The Empire Hotel Eviction Suit
A Snohomish hotel owner loses her legal battle after being forcibly removed from her own property.
- Ballard Stages a Fairytale
Local children perform a charming pantomime at the Ballard Opera House to the delight of the community.
- Tragedy at Cle Elum: Twelve Tons of Dynamite Explode
A catastrophic explosion at a mining magazine claims multiple lives, including a former Lynden pioneer.
- A Tragic End in the Lance District
A rejected suitor's attempt to harm his rival ends in a fatal, self-inflicted gunshot wound behind a Tyler saloon.
- A Grain of Strychnine in the Stomach: The Death of Edith Pepoon
Two Portland physicians testing the stomach of a woman who died in a homestead cabin six miles from Northport find more than a fatal dose of poison — and suspicion falls on her husband and another man who, the report alleges, mixed the dose while she played the organ for callers.
- The Crumbling Promise of Kennewick's Paving
A Walla Walla contractor inspects Kennewick’s failing street improvements and suggests a costly fix to save the city's new oil macadam.
- A Backyard Tragedy in Ballard
A young girl is severely burned while playing near a rubbish fire during spring cleaning.
- Fatal Accidents Claim Two Railway Workers
A local brakeman and an out-of-town conductor lose their lives in separate railroad incidents during a single weekend.
- The Price of a Child's Abuse
A Seattle court hears harrowing testimony of an acrobat child beaten by his handlers, sparking a packed, tense courtroom drama.
- The Brutal Forced Exploitation of a Young Woman in Everett
A teenager is pressured into prostitution by her partner, exposing the dark underside of life in the booming town of Everett.
- Suffragists Patch Up a Convention Fight—After Silencing Washington’s Delegates
A credentials dispute over the Spokane delegation turned a Seattle suffrage convention into a faction fight. The national body restored harmony but stripped Washington women of their votes in the deliberations.
- A Young Student's Tragic End
A popular Walla Walla High School student succumbs to internal injuries after a horse riding accident north of town.
- The Con Man and the Widow
A crafty imposter poses as a weary veteran to swindle a charitable widow out of her supplies.
- The Governor’s Violin Fell Silent at the Bohemian Club
Charles B. Laughton—former acting governor, lawyer, and celebrated fiddler—died mid-sentence in Tacoma after a legislative session, leaving behind a career tangled in vetoes and a school-book scandal.
- Tragedy at the Crossing
A Grant County sheep rancher and his wife are struck by a Great Northern train near Ephrata in a harrowing vehicle collision.
- A Widow, Two Children, and a Town That Passed the Hat
When Mrs. H. P. Fox arrived in Spokane Falls to find her husband dead of an accidental gunshot, strangers raised money for his burial and her passage home to South Carolina.
- Church Faction Fight at the African M.E. Church
A local pastor faces a push for his resignation, but claims the effort is led by unauthorized parties.
- The Battle for the Sunset Highway
Delegates from six counties clash in Wenatchee over the proposed route for the new state highway, revealing deep-seated regional rivalries.
- South Tacoma Residents Organize for Basic Infrastructure
Tired of poor transit and bad sidewalks, citizens in the Sixth Addition form an improvement club to demand fire protection and city services.
- The Marked Five-Dollar Bill That Unmasked a 'Good Citizen'
A trusted expressman caught by a trap bill confessed to a March safe robbery — and a man his friends thought beyond reproach was sentenced to up to fourteen years.
- The Myth of the 'Overcrowded' Frontier
In 1889, local papers pushed back against sensationalist claims that Seattle was a destitute wasteland, framing the 'idle' men on street corners not as victims of an economic crisis, but as voluntary loafers.
- The Strychnine Widower: Northport Man on Trial for Poisoning His Insane Wife
George L. Pepoon stands accused of killing the mother of his three children for $1,000 in insurance and a new bride — with a paroled convict as the state's star witness.