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129 stories matching fool
- The Ghost-Maker of Buffalo Gets Busted in Tacoma
A traveling spiritualist promising to summon the dead is exposed as a charlatan after an electric battery—and a hysterical scene at a hotel—reveals her 'spirit' tricks.
- The Winchester Defense of Beacon Hill
A woman home alone confronts a home intruder with a rifle, forcing a hasty retreat into the night.
- A Fatal Accident at Belknap
A tragic mishap involving a pistol leaves a prominent local man dead.
- The War on Labor’s Press
A fiery editorial calls out C.W. Post for his attempts to silence organized labor by pressuring publishers to refuse their advertising.
- The Streetcar Decoy Scam
When the local transit company tried to goose ridership by planting actors on the streetcars, Everett's working class saw right through the performance.
- The Self-Help Gospel of the Wishkah Mill
An editorial urging local unemployed men to bypass wage labor and directly operate a shuttered sawmill to kickstart the regional economy.
- The Dairy Wars: Small Farmers Fight for Survival
Kennewick farmers push back against federal dairy regulations they claim are a Trojan horse for the 'Beef Trust.'
- East Side Workers Demand a Free Bridge
Fed up with paying tolls while their taxes fund empty infrastructure projects elsewhere, east side residents threaten to block city bond measures.
- The Fight Over Who Controls the Apple Market
W. H. Paulhamus lashes out at fruit distributors in a heated debate over federal oversight of the Northwest apple industry.
- The Perfect Counterfeit
Spokane police investigate a sophisticated operation producing high-quality gold fakes that fool local businesses.
- The Barkentine Eureka Slips Port
In a display of industrial defiance, the captain of the Eureka clears Seattle harbor with a non-union crew, outmaneuvering local labor organizers.
- The Waterfront Standoff
Striking union sailors are outmaneuvered when non-union crews are covertly transported to a ship at Port Blakeley.
- The Judgment Day Landlord
A Seattle resident finds his patience tested when his neighbors' millennial religious fervor leads to the systematic expropriation of his household goods.
- 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 Great Land Grab: Congress’s Failure to Hold the Northern Pacific Accountable
A scathing editorial from 1886 demands legislative accountability as Congress fails to reclaim land granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad.
- The Mob Rule at Our Doorstep
When an organized society in Walla Walla issued threats against anyone hiring Chinese labor, the press decried the move as a return to the lawless spirit of the frontier.
- The Railroad Lobby's Secret Campaign in Eastern Washington
Critics expose a scheme to install a puppet candidate in the governor’s office to prevent the creation of a railroad commission.
- The Tillicums' Trick: How a Political Machine Fooled Tacoma's Democrats
A secretive faction called the Tillicums manipulates primaries, places decoy tickets, and doles out patronage jobs to tighten its grip on Pierce County politics.
- The Steamboat Inspector's Reckoning
Capt. Bryant admits free rides, denies bribery, and trades accusations with the pilots and captains who want him removed from the Seattle inspection office.
- The Election Week Hangover
A Seattle saloon keeper closes shop to avoid brawls as partisan fever turns his establishment into a battleground.
- The Price of Discontent: A Warning from the 1877 Panic
While Seattle thrives on the steady hum of mills and logging camps, a Seattle editor warns citizens against petty grievances by recounting the harrowing hunger and unemployment plaguing the rest of the country.
- A Call for Animal Welfare Laws
A witness decries the brutal methods used to put down an injured horse on Seattle's Third Street.
- The 'Gold Brick' King: How a Master Con Man Sold Copper to a Banker
A too-trusting Aberdeen banker, a man disguised as an Indian, and a forged letter from the San Francisco mint—the Seattle trial of the notorious swindler 'Rebel George' Knowlton.
- A Costly Court House Proposal
A local property owner attempts to pressure King County into buying his bluff-top lot for an exorbitant price, despite the site's clear logistical flaws.
- Waitresses Enforce Wage Justice
When a local Greek restaurant failed to pay a waitress her wages, her union sisters decided to skip the courts and handle the matter personally.