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149 stories matching thin
- The State's Sudden War on Cigarettes
Washington moves to ban the sale and manufacture of cigarettes, setting up a clash with the powerful American Tobacco Company.
- Ice-Cut Canoe Tragedy on the River
A dark night and floating ice claim two lives near Langley in a failed river crossing.
- The Silent Stage: Walla Walla Theater Musicians Walk Out
A labor dispute between the Opera House management and the local Musicians' union leaves the stage quiet and the future of live theater in doubt.
- The Hop Blight and the Fall of Washington's Premium Crop
Ezra Meeker warns that poor cultivation and sloppy picking are costing the region its competitive edge in the global market.
- The Myth of the Promised Land: 1885
A reader challenges the city's booster press, exposing the gap between industrial promises and the reality of a struggling population.
- A Father’s Cruel Abandonment
A Seattle physician leaves his children in the care of a stranger and vanishes without payment or provision, exposing the vulnerability of local families to predatory abandonment.
- The Forgotten Souls of the County Poor Farm
A rare, unflinching account of the grim conditions inside Seattle’s makeshift county asylum, where the elderly and infirm were left to languish on hard wooden planks.
- The Unfulfilled Dream of a Washington Sugar Valley
A cautionary tale of failed agricultural speculation and the elusive promise of a sugar beet industry in the late 1880s.
- The Penobscot House Mortgage Scam
A deal for a Third Street hotel ended in handcuffs after a landlord discovered his collateral was built on thin air.
- Turning Lakes into Pearl Factories
A University of Washington professor claims the Pacific Northwest could dominate the global pearl button market by transplanting Mississippi mussels.
- The Pugilist Who Refused to Fight
John L. Sullivan's exhibition match in Seattle ends in humiliation for his opponent, who repeatedly hits the floor to avoid taking a single blow.
- The Orchardist’s Hard Lesson in Elevation
After a devastating May freeze wiped out his peach crop, a local grower shares a hard-won lesson on the importance of topography and variety selection for Pacific Northwest fruit farming.
- The Battle of the Incubator
A Seattle storefront puts the new technology of mechanical egg hatching to the test against the old ways of the barnyard.
- The Overachieving Schoolgirl of 1888
A reporter interviews a fourteen-year-old girl struggling under the crushing weight of an hyper-academic curriculum.
- Turning Washington's Lakes into a Pearl Button Empire
Professor Trevor Kincaid argues that Washington's fresh water lakes are perfectly suited to revolutionize the American button trade.
- A Child Lost to the Woods
A tragic accident occurs near Snohomish as a young boy, out with his rifle, fails to return home.
- The Weed That Beat Wheat Hay
A Cheney-area farmer's experiment with prickly lettuce convinced him the despised weed was better cattle feed than his best wheat and oat hay.
- The Miracle Metal of the Future
An 1889 report speculates on the dawn of the 'Aluminum Age,' predicting a world transformed by the lightweight, non-tarnishing wonder metal.
- Seattle’s First Brush with the Future
When an agent from Portland brought a pair of telephones to town, residents gathered at Yesler’s Hall to hear voices and music traveling eight miles through thin air.
- The Redemption of a Drunkard
A harrowing night of domestic violence and neglect ends a decade later in an unexpected act of grace.
- The Hop Growers' Struggle
Washington hop farmers face a market squeeze from consolidated buyers despite a global supply shortage.
- The Great Delinquency: Snohomish’s 1878 Tax Auction
A sprawling list of property seizures offers a rare window into the instability of early Snohomish settlers, who faced total loss of their homesteads for debts as small as twenty-two cents.
- The Confidence Man of Madison Street
A charismatic stranger built a house in Seattle, charmed local investors, and pulled off a sophisticated bank fraud that left the city stunned.
- The Hop Louse Sabotage
A breakthrough in the Puyallup Valley reveals the hidden life cycle of the pest destroying Washington's hop industry.
- The Woman With the Little Girl and the Worthless Checks
A forger calling herself Myra F. Parker worked Ellensburg shopkeepers with small purchases and big checks, then vanished into a Northwest-wide manhunt.