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- Tacoma Postmaster Fires Women to Hire Men
Local postmaster justifies replacing female clerks with men and his own son by citing efficiency and gossip concerns.
- Unemployed Workers Displaced from Portland to Seattle
Sixty-four longshoremen arrive on the City of Topeka seeking work after being pushed out of Portland to reduce their local unemployed rolls.
- A Kenton Picnic Speech and the Justification of Native Displacement
At a Kenton picnic, Judge Orange Jacobs cast pioneer survival as historical necessity and used dehumanizing rhetoric to defend the displacement of Native Americans.
- Devastating Floods Paralyze the Pacific Northwest
Massive flooding across the Fraser Valley and regional rivers has severed communications, washed away farms, and cut off rail travel.
- The Great Circus Invasion of 1889
Fresh from the ashes of the Great Seattle Fire, the city found a brief, surreal escape in the arrival of a massive traveling show.
- Great Northern Moves to Seize Downtown Blocks
The expanding railway network files suit to condemn an entire city block, displacing residents and businesses in the Whitechapel district.
- Political Spoils System Grips the Board of Public Works
As a new commissioner takes his seat, a swarm of job-seekers descends on City Hall in hopes of displacing sitting staff.
- The Struggle for the Puyallup Reservation
A legal war unfolds over railroad rights-of-way through the Puyallup Reservation, pitting federal troops against private developers as Indigenous residents face displacement.
- The Tragic End of Bertha Baht
A young immigrant woman, displaced by hardship and poverty, takes her own life in the tide flats of South Seattle.
- The Great Northwest Flood of 1894
Historic deluges across the Columbia, Fraser, and Skagit river valleys have paralyzed rail travel and left thousands displaced from their homes.
- The Tragedy of the Elliott Block Fire
A coroner's jury investigates the death of two brothers in a nighttime fire, leaving their family displaced and the local community rushing to provide aid.
- A Desperate End for a Displaced Policeman
James E. Penrod, a former Denver officer left destitute after political shifts, takes his own life in Centralia.
- The Price of Lumber and Labor
As the market for timber collapses, loggers on the Sound face falling wages and the looming threat of free trade.
- The Struggle to Feed and House the Unemployed
As the economic depression deepens, a city mission at 604 Commercial Street reports on its efforts to sustain hundreds of displaced men.
- The Art of the Stage Ballet in 1890s Seattle
San Francisco dance instructor L. Cook visits Cordray’s Theater to teach elaborate, avant-garde ballets to local girls.
- The Shadow Trade at Nooksack River
A government agent describes the precarious intersection of logging, displacement, and the illicit opium trade on the Lummi Reservation.
- The Great Rebuilding: How the Great Seattle Fire Forced a Modern City
In the smoldering aftermath of the 1889 Great Seattle Fire, city leaders and engineers seized the catastrophe as a singular opportunity to abandon the crooked, cramped street grid for a rational, expanded future.
- The Hawaiian Colony of Aberdeen
Facing economic displacement by Chinese labor in Honolulu, a group of islander families seeks a new start as farmers in the forests of Grays Harbor.
- Early Morning Blaze Razes Lake Union Lodging House
A two-story frame building was gutted by fire early Saturday morning, displacing tenants and a local barber.
- The Professional Vagrant Who Could Not Stay Away
A habitual traveler of the rails, George P. Small, is caught once again in Oregon, highlighting the desperate, recurring struggle of the era's displaced poor.
- Pittsburgh Capital Bets on Seattle’s Industrial Future
A new steel works in Seattle, managed by a Pittsburgh expert, signals the city’s post-fire resurgence and potential to become a national steel hub.
- The Clearing of Whitechapel
In April 1892, Seattle’s police chief launched a moral crusade to shutter the 'cribs' of Whitechapel, forcing residents into the shadows and signaling an early chapter in the city's long history of displacing vulnerable communities.
- The Great Seattle Fire of 1889: Organizing Relief Amidst Chaos
Following the cataclysmic fire that leveled downtown, city officials and volunteer committees scrambled to house the displaced and maintain order in the charred remains of the district.
- 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.
- Fifty Years of Service, Then a Pink Slip
The coast survey lets go its Pacific coast chief, Prof. George Davidson, as a budget-cutting 'reorganization' — and San Francisco's scientific and shipping circles erupt in protest.