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| 1899 | 3 |
3 stories matching lantern
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:lanti, lantz, intern, lantri, lavern, lan
- When Seattle Rolled Out the Red Carpet for the Nation's Editors
In 1900, Seattle’s civic leaders threw a lavish, boat-filled spectacle for visiting journalists to burnish the city's image as a rising metropolis.
- The Great Tacoma Brake-Man Mystery: Was It a Brutal Assault or a Tragic Accident?
Railroad officials and witnesses in Tacoma are debunking the claim that brakeman Cook was beaten by a robber, pointing to a bridge strike as the likely cause of his skull fracture.
- The Night They Were Left in the Brush: A Highway Robbery on Third Avenue
Two desperate men held up three victims at gunpoint near the Union Trunk Hotel, binding them in the cold wet brush while a fourth escaped. One victim’s wife walked within twenty feet of the scene, unaware her husband was lying bound nearby.