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| 1854 | 2 |
| 1858 | 8 |
| 1859 | 5 |
| 1860 | 2 |
| 1861 | 6 |
| 1862 | 9 |
| 1863 | 3 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1872 | 9 |
| 1876 | 116 |
| 1877 | 106 |
| 1878 | 59 |
| 1879 | 5 |
| 1880 | 27 |
| 1882 | 21 |
| 1883 | 107 |
| 1884 | 63 |
| 1885 | 86 |
| 1886 | 38 |
| 1887 | 49 |
| 1888 | 62 |
| 1889 | 131 |
| 1890 | 18 |
| 1891 | 124 |
| 1892 | 254 |
| 1893 | 247 |
| 1894 | 271 |
| 1895 | 345 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 15 |
| 1898 | 28 |
| 1899 | 58 |
| 1900 | 8 |
| 1902 | 10 |
| 1903 | 100 |
| 1904 | 116 |
| 1905 | 21 |
| 1907 | 8 |
| 1908 | 50 |
| 1909 | 202 |
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| 1911 | 10 |
| 1912 | 4 |
| 1914 | 26 |
| 1915 | 32 |
| 1916 | 74 |
| 1917 | 23 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 15 |
| 1924 | 3 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 4 |
3,034 stories matching put
- Baseball on a Waxed Floor
A drizzling rain turned Seattle's Madison Street Park into a mud pit, forcing players to do more 'ground and lofty tumbling' than actual base running.
- The City vs. The Citizens: A Sewer Standoff
Property owners refuse to pay for city improvements they claim were botched, poorly contracted, and overpriced.
- The Great Snake River Mountain Blast
A massive engineering feat near the Snake River Valley railroad, involving the demolition of a mountain side to straighten a treacherous curve.
- Hoquiam’s School Board Prioritizes Local Business Over Outsiders
While Hoquiam mandates that local contractors perform school heating work, Aberdeen officials look to Tacoma for technical installations.
- The Town That Was Too Indifferent for Fire Protection
After a devastating blaze nearly wiped out a city block, the Leavenworth Echo urged residents to trade frontier luck for modern infrastructure.
- The Satchel Swindle: How a Miner Outsmarted a Seattle Landlord
A crafty miner used a bag of lead pipe to play on his landlord’s greed and secure two months of free room and board.
- The Mystery of the Smalley House Fires
A suspicious string of blazes on Queen Anne Hill has residents calling for a new fire station.
- Will Walla Walla's Women Save the Stubblefield Home?
While men offer only 'moral support,' the Woman's Reading Club and Ladies' Relief Society lead the charge to secure a new home for widows and orphans.
- Tacoma’s Growing Pains: A City Parched
Citizens demand answers as reservoir delays and equipment failures leave South End neighborhoods with dwindling water pressure.
- The Inside Scoop on City Hall Graft
A disgruntled former assistant exposes patronage, incompetence, and waste within the city's building department.
- The House That Slid Down the Street
A Seattle homeowner sues the city for ruinous damage after a street grading project leaves his property tumbling toward the thoroughfare.
- Race Against the Rain in Puyallup
After a season of unprecedented late spring rains, hop growers are working overtime to get their crop in the ground.
- The River That Wasn't: Kennewick’s Lonely Fight to Open the Snake
While Portland looked the other way, Kennewick businessmen pooled their own money to dredge rapids and build docks, betting the town's future on a water route that never came.
- The End of the Old Wallula Crossing
A historic Columbia River ferry, rendered obsolete by new competition, finds a second life upriver at White Bluffs.
- The Divorce Consultation That Did Not Go As Planned
A determined woman visits a Seattle attorney seeking help to evict her husband, only to be told that the law does not work quite the way she imagined.
- Snoqualmie Pass Becomes a Free Public Road
King and Kittitas counties reach a historic agreement to stop toll collection, opening the mountains to the public.
- The Struggle for Yakima Irrigation Rights
Kennewick editors push back against accusations of land-grabbing, demanding only the water rights promised to the lower valley.
- The Blackmailer's Dark Hole
After smuggling contraband into his jail cell, a defiant inmate is forced into solitary confinement.
- City Hall Launches New 'Disorderly' Tax
Tacoma officials move to turn police regulation of vice houses into a monthly revenue stream.
- The Fight for Cash Wages
A proposed Seattle ordinance to force contractors to pay laborers in 'lawful money' rather than time checks was struck down by the City Council.
- Appraisers Put a $50,000 Price on a Richland Ranch — and a Pumping Plant to Match
The Costellos' spread three miles north of Richland, once the McAlpin homestead, is judged the foundation of one of the finest stock farms in the irrigated country — if the water can be lifted onto it.
- The City That Forgot Baseball
An anonymous local sports fan rails against the town’s apathy toward the diamond, fearing that Everett’s civic pride is being paved over.
- The City Council’s Fireproofing Farce: How Seattle’s ‘Renovations’ Are Destroying Property Values
An editorial scolds the local government for allowing cheap, temporary repairs to old buildings within fire limits, arguing that these 'shells' are disfiguring the business district and raising insurance rates for everyone.
- The Steamer Anderson’s Long Life on the Sound
A legendary vessel finds new ownership in Seattle, signaling a shift in the regional transit market.
- The Mysterious Chinatown Robbery Trial
Local tensions rise as a merchant faces a suspicious prosecution, sparking a retaliatory street brawl.