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| 1892 | 3 |
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- Olympia’s Streetcar Truce
After a period of corporate maneuvering, the Olympia Street Railway and the Light and Power Company reach a seven-year agreement to consolidate transit services.
- Olympia's New Council Hands 'Boss' Sickels the Purse Strings
The new city council takes office, gives Boss Sickels the powerful ways-and-means chair, and confronts a railroad-blocked sewer, a fire department asking for more hydrants and alarm boxes, and a thin city treasury.
- The Governor’s Daughter Weds Beneath Ivy and Calla Lilies
Olympia’s St. John’s Episcopal Church filled with hundreds as Lizzie Ferry married Hon. John Leary, then a steamer carried the wedding party to the governor’s mansion and on toward Japan.