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- A Late-June Flood Chases Newport’s Riverfront
The Pend Oreille kept rising after mid-June, drowning grain in the Calispel Valley and tearing planks from the Lumbermen’s Transportation docks.
- The Carnival Queen of 1903
After a hard-fought voting contest, a local shop worker is crowned Queen for the Military band's upcoming carnival.
- The Schools Run Dry: Seattle’s 1877 Budget Crisis
With the city’s coffers emptied, Seattle's public schools were shuttered mid-semester, forcing teachers to pivot to private tuition just to keep the lights on.
- The Presbyterian Picnic at Vashon Island
A mid-summer gathering of Sunday School members turns the undeveloped shores of Vashon Island into a scene of croquet, baseball, and local amusement.
- The Ghost of Ballast Island
A laborer’s body washes up on the Seattle waterfront, leaving a trail of questions about a midnight splash and a missing man with a light overcoat.
- The Balloon Boy of Seattle
A 12-year-old boy is snatched into the sky after becoming entangled in a hot-air balloon's rigging, leading to a desperate mid-air struggle.
- The Snoqualmie River Farm That Had Everything
A settler’s mid-19th-century struggle with 'weak lungs' reveals a prime piece of riverfront timber and agricultural land during the height of the logging boom.
- Death at the Neah Bay Cable Crossing
A cable car over the Neah Bay river snapped mid-crossing, killing a prominent attorney as horrified passengers looked on.
- The sheriff seizes Olympia's streetcars, mid-block, over a bond
A lawyer's objection leaves a Main Street horse car standing stock still at Sixth for hours while the company's backers scramble for a new bond.
- 2,200 Men, a Steel Bridge and a Tunnel: The Railroad Eats the Valley
The Idaho & Washington Northern's Metaline extension is three-quarters graded out of Ione, the bridge north of Newport is spanned, and tracklayers expect to reach Dalkena by mid-June.
- The Daily Struggle of Tacoma’s Hillside Transit
Commuters express growing frustration as the unreliable cable car line repeatedly leaves passengers stranded mid-slope.
- The Sudden End of a Pioneer Printing Treasurer
A quiet visit to an old friend at the Arlington Hotel turned tragic when a beloved local businessman collapsed mid-story.
- The Desperate Act of a Woman on Second Street
A mid-afternoon suicide attempt in a Seattle boarding house highlights the quiet, desperate struggles of a woman living on the margins.
- The End of the Wild West Land Grab
A look at the federal crackdown on corrupt land speculators and railroad giants in Washington Territory during the mid-1880s.
- The Doctor Who Vanished: A Seattle Physician’s Fearful Disappearance Sparks Murder Theories
Dr. H.P. Harrington of Oakdale left his patients and his town in mid-April, leaving behind a trail of illness, a warning from a lynching victim, and friends who fear he was silenced.
- The War on the Hop Louse in Puyallup
As growers struggle with a partial crop failure and a late season, local farmers debate the best scientific methods to save the region's hops.
- Suspicious Fire Sweeps Benton County Courthouse
A mid-day blaze in the treasurer's office leaves officials baffled, marking the second fire scare at the building in recent weeks.
- The Midnight Mutiny of Annabel McCarty
A young socialite’s debut party in 1877 Seattle takes a turn when she decides the festivities are entirely overrated.
- The Mid-Straits Fare Dodge of 'Kaintuck'
A would-be passenger who slipped aboard at Seattle without a ticket tries to bargain his way across Puget Sound—until the captain marches him to the gangway.
- The Hidden Killer in Seattle’s Business District
The tragic, preventable death of a young businessman in 1889 exposes the lethal lack of sewage infrastructure in the heart of downtown Seattle.
- The Uncharted Riches of the Deep Sea
In 1891, visionary fisheries expert James G. Swan argued that Washington's future wealth wasn't just in timber, but in the massive, untapped halibut and cod banks off the coast.
- Filipino Students Face a Closing Door at American Universities
A Filipino student leader in New York charges that West Coast universities, including the University of Washington, are quietly shutting out Filipino applicants — admitting just one of twenty last year.
- The Sailor Who Hung by His Own Neck
A seaman aboard the English ship Halewood survives a sixty-foot fall after a piece of rigging snags his throat in mid-air.
- The Porpoise and the Cow: A Nautical Disaster in Tacoma
A schooner, a one-eyed cow, and a cargo-hoisting gone horribly wrong—a day on the Tacoma waterfront that ended in broken bunks and a damp bovine.
- Fire on the Hill: A Seattle Neighborhood in Peril
A mid-day blaze destroys homes and leaves a neighbor seriously injured, highlighting the isolation and scarcity of water in the city's expanding residential districts.