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| Year | Stories |
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| 1899 | 2 |
2 stories matching exert
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:expert, exercis, ebert, emert, etert, evert
- The City's Indecent Ambulance
A delayed ambulance and a harrowing scene on the city streets reveal the crumbling state of Seattle's emergency services in 1899.
- The Heat That Broke the Girls: A Seattle Summer of Hysteria
In June 1902, a sweltering afternoon in downtown Seattle turned a garment factory into a scene of mass panic as workers collapsed from heat prostration.