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2,469 stories matching young
- The $40 Forgery That Fooled Seattle’s Hardware Elite
A dashing stranger with a dark mustache and bare chest walks into W.P. Boyd & Co., flashes a forged check from the Seattle Hardware Company, and vanishes with $40 in cash—leaving behind only a single typo that saves the victim from total ruin.
- The Last Voyage of a Lost Boat
A tragic discovery on Bainbridge Island confirms the worst fears regarding a missing young man.
- The False 'Reporter' and the Seduction Case
A young man posing as a writer for the 'Post-Intelligencer' is arrested for seduction after a bizarre paper trail of fake confessions and suicide notes is uncovered in court.
- A.F.L. Organizer C.O. Young Rallies Everett's Labor Movement
General organizer C.O. Young delivers a rousing address at the Labor Temple and urges workers to defeat Congressman William E. Humphrey.
- The Jailbreak Plot That Rocked the County Jail
A notorious gambler and blackmailer led a group of dangerous inmates in a scheme to seize the jailer and escape through the steel tank.
- Mystery Shooting at the Washington National Bank
A bank accountant is found with a gunshot wound to the chest, but the circumstances behind the incident remain disturbingly unclear.
- The Padlock Swindle on the Sidewalks of Seattle
A new arrival in Seattle was relieved of his life savings by a pair of confidence men using a trick lock and a fake partnership.
- A Safe Harbor for Working Women
The Young Women’s Christian Association reports on its first three months of providing boarding house referrals and noon-hour rest spaces.
- A Close Call in the Columbia River Gorge
A young woman on horseback survives an encounter with a starving cougar.
- The Unwinding of a Snohomish Logging Partnership
A rare, stark public record of a dissolved logging venture in Snohomish County, marking the end of a business relationship between two local frontiersmen.
- The Soda Fountain Swap
A regular customer at a local Seattle soda fountain finds himself unexpectedly toasted by a new clerk who can't distinguish between pineapple syrup and brandy.
- The Desperate Act of a Waitress
A young worker's suicide attempt at the Seattle block leaves questions and a mystery about the men in her room.
- The Laundry Day Mix-up
A young immigrant from Wisconsin makes a frantic dash through Second Street in a desperate attempt to retrieve a $100 bill sewn into his undershirt.
- A Deadly Valentine's Day Shooting
A young woman shoots and kills her former suitor after he breaks his promise of marriage.
- Mill Worker Critically Injured in Lake Union Accident
A young worker is fighting for his life after a machine accident at the Western Mill Company.
- The Marriage License Court Battle
A young couple defeats parental interference in the local courts.
- A Community Rallies After a Railway Tragedy
When a young brakeman loses his foot in a rail accident near the Cedar River, local citizens organize to secure his future.
- The Scandal of the Police Commissioner and the Hotel Room
A sensational trial unfolds in Judge Humes' court where a husband and wife face blackmail charges against a Seattle Police Commissioner.
- The University’s Growing Pains
Facing a surge in enrollment, the University of Washington Territory expands its boarding facilities to accommodate a new generation of students.
- The Mysterious Disappearance of Grace Norton
A young visitor from New York goes missing in Seattle, leaving her family in distress.
- The Typhoid Ward Forgeries: A Young Man's Trial Turns on Missing Drafts
Nate Young is accused of stealing and forging drafts while caring for a sick medicine drummer at the Hotel Stevens; his wife and parents watch a case built on circumstantial evidence.
- The Double Standard of Yakima Justice
When three prominent young men were fined for a drunken brawl, the local paper noted a stark disparity in how the court treated them versus a solitary woman arrested for the same charge.
- The Man Who Vanished Into the Slough
A Snohomish resident borrows a skiff for a trip to Thornton Mellan’s and never returns; neighbors find only his clothes on the riverbank.
- The Proposal to Import 'Young Scotch Girls' to Seattle
A territorial official proposes a controversial plan to remedy the labor shortage by bringing hundreds of young women from Scotland to work in local households.
- An Eastern Critique of Seattle’s ‘Young Men’s Party’
A skeptical observer from Brooklyn weighs in on the age-based political movements shaping Washington Territory.