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| Year | Stories |
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| 1892 | 1 |
| 1893 | 1 |
| 1894 | 2 |
4 stories matching locker
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:locket, blocker, clocker, lock, lockeard, cocker
- Tragedy on the Mudflats
A search continues for five people lost from a yacht after a violent storm near Everett.
- The Hanged Corporal: A Seattle Guard Company Investigates Its Own Effigy Prank
Officers admitted the facts but called it a practical joke—then promised to punish the men who strung up Corporal J. E. Boyer in effigy.
- A Hanging in the Armory: The Unpopular Corporal and the Men Who Stuffed His Uniform
Company E turned a grudge into theatre — an effigy rigged with an electric-light wire, a pair of odd-coloured glasses and a chalked gravestone — and a military court may follow.
- Seven Months at Sea: The State of Maine’s Ordeal
The State of Maine left New York in July 1892 and reached Seattle 201 days later, her crew disabled by saltwater boils, her water spoiled, and her captain forced to beat men to the pumps.