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| 1903 | 2 |
2 stories matching rolling
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- Sell the Bonds, Build the Furnaces: Seattle's Steel Gamble
A 1902 prospectus asks ordinary Seattle savers to finance a Pacific Coast iron and steel empire — a furnace at Irondale, open-hearth works on the West Seattle waterfront — with a hundred dollars of stock thrown in free with every hundred-dollar bond.
- Wormy Apples and Four Dollars a Day
A Yakima fruit inspector is accused of idling away his time in the hop yards while infected fruit rolls out of the county — and The Ranch says King County's own pair of inspectors are no better, with wormy apples the rule rather than the exception on every stand in Seattle.