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  1. Seattle Gripped by Baseball Fever

    When the Chicago White Stockings clinched the pennant in 1886, Seattle telegraph offices became the scene of a downtown riot of excitement.

    Oct 20, 1886Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyNightlife

  2. The Clergyman and the Con Men

    A visiting clergyman outwits a band of Seattle 'bunko steerers' who tried to trap him in a gambling game at a local church-adjacent hideout.

    Jul 8, 1883Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyNightlife

  3. Steaming Through the Puget Sound Boom, Town by Town

    A Seattle traveler’s 1883 voyage aboard the Idaho finds crowded wharves, railroad dreams, and real-estate prices high enough to check the very boom they fed.

    Aug 12, 1883Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerWhatcom Creek, Bellingham, Whatcom CountyBoom & Bust

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