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| Year | Stories |
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| 1890 | 2 |
| 1891 | 4 |
| 1892 | 4 |
| 1893 | 3 |
| 1894 | 1 |
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- The Railroad That Couldn't Steal His Home
How a local homesteader outlasted the Northern Pacific Railway in a decade-long legal battle over land rights.
- The Era of Corporate Thugs
A look back at the private, armed detective agencies hired by corporations to break strikes and terrorize workers in Washington mining towns.
- The Alchemy of the Sands
Prospectors on the coast claim to have found a secret chemical process to extract gold from black sand near Ocosta.
- Aberdeen’s School Board Stalls on New Building
A local newspaper feud spills over into accusations of administrative incompetence and backroom dealing in the selection of an architect.
- The Political Weaponization of Voter Literacy
An editorial endorsement of ballot reform as a tool to disenfranchise 'ignorant' voters in both the North and the South.
- The Great Grays Harbor Gold Rush
A prospector who claimed to have a secret method for extracting gold from harbor sands vanishes, leaving behind a community of duped investors.
- The Chehalis County Tax Revolt
Hard-hit by the post-boom recession, property owners organize to challenge local taxes and municipal waste.
- The 'Immortal Cinch': Aberdeen's Schools Signed Away a Year of Chairs
In March 1892 the directors of Chehalis County's school district No. 5 promised to buy every desk and seat they would need for a full year from one Seattle furniture firm at prices that could never come down. The local editor read the contract and asked the one question nobody had answered: what did the district get in return?
- Aberdeen Council Bickers Over Bridge Purchase
A procedural stalemate arises as council members argue over the best way to secure bonds for the city’s acquisition of the Heron Street bridge.
- Steam vs. Oxen: The Mechanization of the Woods
A steam donkey engine on the Wishkah River is putting traditional logging methods to shame with double the output.
- The Hidden Poison in Your Pantry
An official investigation exposes the widespread use of ammonia and alum in common baking powders, arming local housewives with kitchen-tested methods to unmask the dangerous additives.
- The Elephant-Powered Sawmills of Burma
A visiting mill manager shares tales of jungle timber operations where elephants handle everything from the logs to the finished lumber.
- Turning Sawdust into Stone
An innovative German industrial method promises to transform Aberdeen's abundant sawmill waste into fireproof, durable building bricks.
- The Salmon Wars of Grays Harbor: How Indigenous Engineers Built a River-Scale Machine
Long before the white man’s mills choked the harbor, Native communities along the Quinault and Grays Harbor rivers operated sophisticated hydraulic traps that captured thousands of salmon—a feat of engineering described in 1890 as 'thrilling sport' yet vital to survival.