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| Year | Stories |
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| 1889 | 2 |
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| 1894 | 3 |
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- A Gavel, a Roar, and a Populist Ticket Born in Chaos
King County's People's Party convention at Turner Hall turned into a shouting, proxy-fighting, faction-splitting marathon—and buried Dr. J. Eugene Jordan and Jack McDonald on the way to nominating a ticket.
- The Women Who Refused to Give Up Built a Home for Working Girls
After three incorporations, a lost treasury, and months of watching an unfinished roof, a band of Seattle women finally turned over the keys to their new Women's Home, a refuge for women 'out in the world for themselves.'
- Seattle's Public Library Gets a Grand Opening
Civic leaders and citizens celebrate the opening of the city’s new library rooms, featuring an elegant ladies' reading room and aspirations for a permanent building.
- A Receivership Sale Rewires Seattle's Street Railway
Bondholders sign a deal to merge the troubled Rainier Power and Railway Co. into a new Third Street Suburban Railway Company, with the Denny family’s claims still shaping the terms.
- Bondholders Take the Street Railway at a Courthouse Auction
The Rainier Power & Railway Company sells for $15,000, handing a troubled transit line to the men who held its debt.
- Seattle Public Library Prepares for Expansion
After issuing nearly 100,000 books in 1893, the growing city library prepares to move into new quarters in the Collins Block.
- Seattle’s 1889 Debates on Race and Rule
A local group of attorneys gathered at a private cottage to debate the explosive question: 'Shall negro majorities rule?'
- Wood & Osborne Bring Order to Washington Territory Deeds
As Seattle's property market surged, the city's premier title firm was forced to expand its operations to keep up with the frantic pace of land speculation.