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- The Rebirth of the Port Ludlow Mill
After years of silence, the Port Ludlow mill prepares to resume operation with a fresh crew and a new vessel on the stocks.
- Great Northern Moves to Seize Downtown Blocks
The expanding railway network files suit to condemn an entire city block, displacing residents and businesses in the Whitechapel district.
- The Makah Nation’s First Harvest of Grass
In an era defined by displacement, a small group of Makah Indians surprised Port Townsend residents by arriving with scythes to offer their labor in the local hay fields.
- The Struggle for Smith's Bay: A Foreclosure on Progress
A landmark Seattle building faces the auction block as labor claims and land disputes entangle a growing city.
- The Forgotten Heroines of the Oregon Trail
A look back at the arduous 1838 bridal trek across the continent to a missionary post in the Colville country.
- The Science of the Double Shock
Kennewick housewives master a high-stakes food preservation method to support the wartime conservation effort.
- The Dangerous Plank Walk of Old Seattle
While the city dragged its feet on street improvements in 1878, residents were forced to navigate treacherous, makeshift wooden planks, causing frustration and daily peril.
- A False Accusation and a Jump into the Sound
After being falsely accused of theft and facing a chaotic night at a Seattle dance hall, a woman driven to despair is saved by an unlikely guardian.
- The Bigamy Suit in Green River
A farmer is sued by his first wife after he moves West, remarries, and establishes a new family, triggering a complex property dispute in superior court.
- Vashon Farmers Petition for County Spraying Equipment
Island growers urge the County Commissioners to purchase a communal power-sprayer to combat orchard blight.
- A Sidewalk Battle on G Street
Property owners spar over mandatory concrete upgrades in the face of recent plank-walk investments.
- The Case of the Beachcomber's Shoes
A pair of old shoes found on the beach, stenciled with a name, failed to convince a federal judge that a local cook was an illegal immigrant.
- The Turkey Rush on the Columbia
As irrigation transforms the desert, Benton County ranchers pivot from livestock to poultry, forming a new association to stake their claim in the Thanksgiving market.
- The Grange Movement Sweeps Stevens County
State organizers are rapidly establishing local chapters to advocate for rural interests, good roads, and political reform.
- The Last Mission of the Pioneer Mother
A reflection on the life of Myra Eells, one of the first white women to cross the Rocky Mountains to bring the Gospel to the Pacific Northwest.
- The Great Puyallup Potato Feud
A minor dispute over five trespassing pigs and a potato patch escalates from a neighborhood grievance to the Pierce County Superior Court.
- The Train That Ate the School Walk
Northern Pacific freights parked across Howard Street force Spokane children to scramble around cars, and the paper wants City Hall to act.
- The Fugitive Clerk and the Victoria Sting
A Tacoma city official accused of forgery and embezzlement is nabbed by local officers after a high-stakes flight to Canada.
- The Great Goose Hunt Fiasco
Four local men head into the wild to secure a feast, only to return with a story of deception and a very expensive bottle of wine.
- Seattle's Building Boom Hits the Streets
High rents and a rapidly growing population drive a citywide rush to build one-story retail stores.
- A Fatal Accident at the Port Gamble Mill
A longtime employee, planning his future in Seattle, is killed by a falling timber while clearing a machine at the Port Gamble sawmill.
- Fatal Leap from a Moving Train
A young, enterprising contractor met a gruesome end while attempting to jump from a moving freight train near Wallula.
- The Real Estate Tycoons of Early Seattle
A look at the men and the infrastructure driving the 1889 expansion of the city's streetcar lines and the booming Renton Addition.
- The 'Irish Lad' Meets His Match
An unexpected middleweight newcomer disrupts a high-stakes wrestling match at the Seattle Skating Rink.
- Zoe Gayton Bets the World She Can Walk It — Then Cheats at the First Tunnel
A week out of Seattle on her round-the-world wager, the pedestrian record-breaker was told she could not walk the two miles of the Northern Pacific's Stampede Tunnel. A locomotive pulled up. Everybody swore secrecy. A newspaper man heard anyway.