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  1. The Colonel’s Campaign Roadshow

    Roland H. Hartley kicks off a seven-week statewide tour, bringing a university quartet to belt out campaign ballads and challenging the power of organized labor.

    Jul 21, 1916Coulee City DispatchEverett, Snohomish CountyCity Hall

  2. The Irishman Who Refused to Be Fired

    When a grocery clerk was handed his walking papers, he used the fine print on the envelope to outwit his boss.

    Sep 15, 1916Coulee City DispatchCoulee City, Grant CountyWork & Pay · Strange But True

  3. A Controversial Screening in Spokane

    The film adaptation of a white supremacist narrative begins its engagement at the Auditorium Theater, marketed as a major record-breaking spectacle.

    Jun 30, 1916Coulee City DispatchAuditorium Theater, Spokane, Spokane CountyExclusion & Resistance

  4. Harrington Harvester Company Expands Facilities

    A significant local manufacturing expansion is underway with the construction of several new buildings to increase production capacity.

    Oct 5, 1916Coulee City DispatchHarrington, Lincoln CountyBoom & Bust

  5. The Lake Washington Shipbuilding Boom

    A new canal connection to Puget Sound drives the expansion of a local steamboat yard into an ocean-going venture.

    Oct 26, 1916Coulee City DispatchLake Washington, Seattle, King CountyBoom & Bust

  6. A Final Reunion for Northwest Pioneers

    After eighty years apart, the remains of missionary William H. Gray and his wife are reinterred alongside the Whitmans in Walla Walla.

    Nov 2, 1916Coulee City DispatchWhitman Mission National Historic Site, Walla Walla, Walla Walla County

  7. Town Turns on Revivalist's 'Personal Abuse'

    A visiting evangelist’s attempts to shame locals into piety backfire, leading the paper to call his tent-revival methods 'of no benefit to the community.'

    Jul 21, 1916Coulee City DispatchMain Street, Coulee City, Grant CountyNightlife

  8. The Sugar War of Coulee City

    A local merchant fights back against a Spokane jobber’s price-fixing tactics.

    Jun 2, 1916Coulee City DispatchCoulee City, Grant CountyFollow the Money

  9. Death of a Local Merchant

    The community mourns the sudden passing of Lovell H. Hodgins, owner of the local Cash Store.

    Sep 15, 1916Coulee City DispatchCoulee City, Grant County

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