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| Year | Stories |
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| 1889 | 1 |
| 1892 | 1 |
| 1893 | 2 |
| 1894 | 2 |
| 1895 | 3 |
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- Walla Walla's Downtown Blaze
A cluster of local businesses burns to the ground, highlighting the risks of early timber-frame architecture.
- The Diamond Watch in the Woods
A hunter discovers the remains of a missing San Francisco liquor merchant in the brush near Port Townsend, ending a long mystery.
- A Sea of Flowers for the Class of 1894
Seattle high school graduates mark the end of their studies in a crowded First Presbyterian Church with oratorical flourishes and bouquets.
- The Bathtub Comedy That Saved the Day
A struggling young couple in a Seattle play find their only salvation in a piece of furniture that isn't quite what it seems.
- The Great Seattle Fire Erased Our Roots
An early record of Seattle’s vanished architecture and the displacement of its first churches following the devastating 1889 fire.
- A $500,000 Mining Syndicate Sends Forty Men Into the Slate Creek Snow
A Montana capitalist bonds a cluster of high-country claims and outfits a wage crew from Seattle and Anacortes for a 60-mile push into the Methow.
- Green Lake Builds a Temperance Hall Out of Cordwood and Muscle
In less than two months, the brothers of Good Templars Lodge No. 200 raise a two-story hall at Green Lake with donated lots and lumber bought with 'legal tender' issued from the mint of muscle.
- The First Wedding in Seattle, Celebrated Forty-Two Years Later
David and Louisa Denny gather four generations of pioneers at their Temperance Street home, where relics of the 1850s—and the certificate from Seattle’s first marriage—turn an anniversary into a founding story.
- Canoeing the Queets: Promise and Dispossession on the Olympic Peninsula
An 1892 travelogue celebrates homesteaders in the Queets River valley while arguing that Native hunters should be confined to the reservation.