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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1895 | 2 |
2 stories matching roach
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:reproach, broach, rach, road, roam, roan
- A Clerk’s Error Won Seattle an Army Post
A mix-up in the civil appropriation bill let the Secretary of War skip a site board and choose Magnolia Bluffs—giving Seattle a federal payroll and a decisive win over Tacoma.
- Who Owns the Mud Beneath Smith Cove?
Seven King County men file claims on twenty acres apiece of Seattle tide flat, then protest the state's plan to fill and sell the same ground out from under them.
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- A Local Boy’s Dangerous Encounter with a Pet Raccoon
A young newsboy known as 'Pud' loses a finger after a rough encounter with a captive raccoon.
- The Policeman and the Neighbor's Chickens
A Seattle patrolman faced bizarre, whimsical charges of luring neighbors' hens onto his property to 'tax' their egg production.
- A Christmas Eve Killing in the Woods
A railroad foreman is murdered in a Pe-Ell camp, sparking a failed attempt by a lynch mob to claim the shooter.
- The Unlikely Peace of the Port Townsend Wharf
A cat known for its hunting prowess inexplicably raises an enormous rat alongside her own litter of kittens.
- The Lonely Death of 'Mike the Rooster'
A once-prominent figure in the city's sporting fraternity dies in a lodging house on Washington Street from a morphine collapse.