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4 stories matching genuin

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  1. Seattle's Election Was Supposed to Draw 8,000. Then the Fraud Reports Started.

    With 10,841 names on the rolls, officials expected a big vote—but blank registration certificates were circulating, and Tacoma police found Seattle papers on men arrested as hobos.

    Mar 1, 1892The Olympia TribuneSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

  2. The Jail Was Out of Level

    Fred Neuffer was due in court for embezzlement. Instead, Olympia’s county jail became the scene of a strange one-man investigation into whether the floor itself was crooked.

    Mar 30, 1892The Olympia TribuneOlympia, Thurston CountyTrue Crime

  3. The Mountain Tacoma Tried to Take

    A railroad president's marketing decree put 'Tacoma' on maps of the great peak across the East — while Seattle refused to surrender the name of a British admiral who never saw it.

    Dec 5, 1891The Olympia TribuneTacoma, Pierce CountyBoom & Bust · Strange But True

  4. A Freethinker Takes On the Pulpit in Olympia

    At Liberal Hall, P. D. Moore answers a minister’s sermon on law with a call for a religion of nature, reason, and good conduct rather than wrath and dogma.

    Nov 17, 1891The Olympia TribuneOlympia, Thurston County

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