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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1892 | 3 |
| 1894 | 2 |
| 1895 | 3 |
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- Mutiny in Port Townsend Harbor
The crew of the Arctic whaler J. D. Peters refused to work after being denied a discharge — and an officer from the cutter Grant clapped them in irons.
- The Child Who Danced for Pennies
A twelve-year-old runaway is arrested in a Seattle saloon while performing a wing dance to escape his father's abusive vaudeville routines.
- He Steered the Runaway Team Into a Water Meter
When the fire department's supply horses bolted near Sixth Street, driver Thomas Dunn held the reins through a breakneck descent and steered the wagon into a water meter rather than let the team drown in the harbor.
- Four Hundred Ladies Watch the Gymnasts and Japanese Fencers
The Seattle Athletic Club closed its season with a ladies' smoker: horizontal-bar feats, four-round boxing bouts, and Japanese fencing masters from Tokyo who kept the house in a roar.
- Standing Room Only: Seattle's Amateur Thespians Surprise Their Director
The Athletic Club's comic travesty packs Cordary's Theater to the rafters, and a floral tribute turns the second act into an ambush for director Bray.
- Eugene V. Debs Comes to Seattle to Ask: 'Who Are the Conspirators?'
Fresh from the collapsed Chicago conspiracy trial, the labor leader arrives by steamer to lecture, raise legal funds, and rally Puget Sound union men.
- A House of Prayer for All the Nations
In 1892, Seattle's Congregation Ohaveth Sholom dedicated the first Jewish synagogue in Washington, filling the new sanctuary at Seventh and Seneca with Jews and Gentiles and with sermons that insisted the building must be more than stone and gold.
- A Michigan Orator Packs the Armory and Rides Down the Populists
Roswell G. Horr brings the Republican gospel of protection and sound money to a standing-room crowd in Seattle — and turns the free-silver men in the hall into the evening's comedy act.