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| 1854 | 2 |
| 1861 | 2 |
| 1862 | 1 |
| 1863 | 1 |
| 1872 | 7 |
| 1876 | 35 |
| 1877 | 34 |
| 1878 | 13 |
| 1879 | 4 |
| 1880 | 5 |
| 1882 | 4 |
| 1883 | 35 |
| 1884 | 17 |
| 1885 | 21 |
| 1886 | 7 |
| 1887 | 7 |
| 1888 | 22 |
| 1889 | 48 |
| 1890 | 7 |
| 1891 | 26 |
| 1892 | 38 |
| 1893 | 30 |
| 1894 | 27 |
| 1895 | 52 |
| 1897 | 5 |
| 1898 | 9 |
| 1899 | 4 |
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| 1902 | 1 |
| 1903 | 17 |
| 1904 | 10 |
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541 stories matching prosper
- The Bananas Scandal
A small-town preacher faces calls for his resignation after being spotted sharing a piece of fruit on a sofa with his wife.
- 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 Tenement Trap: Why Seattle’s Working Men Should Be Grateful
A local editorial contrasts the comfortable cottages of early Seattle with the squalid overcrowding of New York City's tenements, urging citizens to value their land and labor.
- The Herald's Scathing Feud with the P.-I.
When North Yakima was scolded by Seattle’s 'royal' newspaper for suggesting a statehood convention, the new local paper hit back with a venomous letter and a call for better manners.
- The Mill Barons Who Took the Wealth and Left the Ruins
A scathing editorial in the 1877 Snohomish Sun condemns Washington Territory’s timber magnates for draining local resources while contributing nothing to schools, roads, or community development.
- The Struggle for Housing in Booming Seattle
As Seattle's population surges, new residents struggle to find housing in a city already pushed to its limits.
- Spokane's Board of Trade Fights to Save the Northern Pacific Land Grant
In February 1884, Spokane Falls merchants rallied against a Congressional bill that would forfeit the railroad's land grant — and with it, they feared, the town's entire future.
- The Killing of Baker Jim
A prominent farmer and chief is shot dead in an Okanogan saloon after the proprietor refuses him service.
- The Political Brawl for the Soul of Pioneer Seattle
As the city approaches a high-stakes municipal election, a local newspaper mounts a vitriolic defense of the business class against a 'People’s' movement they claim will bring anarchy and mob rule.
- Coal Strike Stalls Renton Mines
Two hundred fifty miners are out of work after refusing a significant wage cut, threatening the economic stability of the town.
- The Hanford Columbian Folds
After five years of publication, the Hanford Columbian suspends operations, marking a shift in the local media landscape.
- The Man Who Thought He Was Being Hunted: A Walla Walla Tragedy
A prosperous farmer’s descent into religious mania ends with his confinement at Medical Lake, revealing the era's fragile understanding of mental health.
- The Road to Prosperity Is Still a Sea of Mud
A Calispel Valley correspondent presses Newport to fix the Bobier Hill grade, widen the wagon roads, and treat farmers as more than an afterthought.
- They Put Their Houses on Wagons: How the Railroad Killed One Yakima and Made Another
The Northern Pacific wins its Supreme Court fight over a depot too late — Yakima City's residents have already hauled their buildings across the sagebrush to North Yakima.
- The Unsavory Political Machine of 1888
A scorching editorial from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer calls for a purge of 'tricksters' and 'nasty fellows' within the Territorial Republican ranks.
- The Last of the Range Riders
As the agricultural transformation of the Columbia Basin accelerates, a veteran cowboy prepares to trade his horse string for a motor vehicle.
- The 'Sawdust Swamp': A Public Health Warning for Seattle
A century and a half ago, the Intelligencer warned that Seattle's lack of proper drainage was not just a civic embarrassment, but a lethal threat to the growing population.
- Full-Time Work Returns to Northern Pacific Shops
South Tacoma railway workers see their hours increased as business picks up at the regional repair facility.
- The Barber's Great Escape
A local barber skips town, leaving behind a mountain of debt, a jilted wife, and a lover, all while chasing a lifestyle he couldn't afford.
- The Great Irrigation Machine
A massive engineering project promises to transform the Yakima Valley from cattle range into a garden of prosperity.
- Federal Relief for Richland Farmers
New government loans offer a lifeline to ranchers burdened by high-interest debt and the legacy of the old boom days.
- A Stevens County Rancher Gets Word of a $7 Million Transvaal Inheritance
Richard Oehmigen of Hunters learned that relatives in Germany had named him heir to one-fifth of an uncle's distant estate—and took the news with remarkable calm.
- A High-Stakes Bet on Whitman College's Future
A correspondent warns that Walla Walla might lose the opportunity to house an elite college if the city fails to raise its share of endowment funds.
- The Nighthawk Mine Wakes Up
After months of silence, mining operations resume at the Nighthawk, raising local hopes for a prosperous industrial revival.
- Claim Jumpers Descend on the Swauk Mining Camp
A weekend rush of 150 strangers—many said to be backed by a new company—re-staked claims under new names and left the camp braced for a mining war.