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- The Spokane Newspaper Price War Heats Up
A cutthroat competition between rival morning and evening papers leads to plummeting subscription rates and new publishing schedules.
- Seattle’s Half-Million-Dollar Canal Fund Was $16,000 Short
A subscription drive for the South Canal neared its half-million-dollar goal in 1896, with bricklayers pledging $1,000 apiece and boosters pressing tardy donors to pay up.
- The Canal Fund Passes $413,000, With a Priest’s $100 and a Boost From the Schwabachers
Seattle’s campaign to subsidize the Lake Washington canal turned to churches, banks, and family firms as the subscription total climbed.
- The Denny Hotel Deal: How Seattle’s Elite Bought Their Way Into History
A canvas for stock subscriptions begins today to fund the city's first grand hotel. Dr. Minor and Mr. Collins lead the charge, urging property owners to invest in a project that promises to accommodate next summer's travel boom.
- The Canal Fund Creeps Toward Its Goal
Seattle’s Lake Washington waterway subsidy inches upward as a Northern Pacific Railroad lawyer promises Eastern capital will do its part.
- Seattleites Declare War on a Magazine Over Mount Rainier
Prominent citizens refuse to pay subscriptions to a publication that renamed Mount Rainier as 'Mount Tacoma'.
- Seattle Buys Its Future, One Subscription at a Time
Boosters raised nearly $340,000 in thirteen days to subsidize the Lake Washington waterway and tide-land improvements, as the company filed contracts covering Seattle harbor.
- Seattle Tries to Buy Its Own Canal
Boosters fan out to raise a $300,000 subsidy for the Lake Washington canal and tide-flat fill, promising work to Seattle men and asking every resident to become a committee of one.
- A Struggling Congregation's Plea for a Permanent Home
In 1889, a small band of Swedish laborers turned to the public to save their Gethsemane church from being sold by its financiers.
- The $300,000 Push to Dig Seattle's Canal
Businessmen and volunteers canvass the city for subscriptions to the Lake Washington Waterway, promising the money will be raised by Saturday.
- Seattle's Pingree Plan: Free Garden Plots for the Unemployed
A city-backed scheme opens an office at 14 Railroad Avenue to hand out land so jobless families can grow their own food — provided the subscriptions come in fast enough.
- The Great Seattle Canal Subscription Scandal
Prominent business leaders expose the local newspaper's fabricated list of wealthy donors to the Lake Washington ship canal project.
- The Canal Fund Was Almost Full—and St. Louis Was Waiting
Seattle waterway boosters needed $50,000 to start contract No. 3. With a deadline looming, Eugene Semple promised the money in three or four days.
- Was the College Location Bought?
A regent suggests the Pullman site for the agricultural college was secured through secret payments.
- How Seattle Raised $50,000 for Its Canal — Bootblacks Included
A San Francisco paper marveled that Seattle's Lake Washington canal fund came in small donations from rich and poor alike, a civic-spirit story with a Puget Sound lesson.
- Pike Street Merchants Open Their Wallets for a Seattle Canal
A volunteer subscription drive added nearly $20,000 to the south canal fund, with Pike Street merchants leading the push and a railroad receiver boasting of Seattle's 'backbone and grit.'
- Seattle’s Railway Subsidy Drive Adds $22,000 in a Single Day
Boosters, clergy and trade committees canvass the city for pledges to bring a railway to town, with nearly 950 property owners signed up and the committee’s Bailey Building office staying open nights.
- Seattle Rallies for the Families of the Franklin Mine Dead
As donations begin arriving at the Post-Intelligencer, Seattle’s Black community organizes its own relief committee for the families of miners killed in the Franklin disaster.
- The Fake Canal Subscribers That Exposed a Seattle Newspaper War
In 1892 the Seattle Telegraph touted a popular subscription fund for the Lake Washington canal. The Post-Intelligencer called the list a confidence game built on the names of prominent citizens who never pledged a cent.
- The Walla Walla County Debt Trap
A railroad promoter’s aggressive scheme to offload personal financial liabilities onto the taxpayers of Walla Walla County.
- Seattle Nearly Buys Its Canal, One Subscription at a Time
With $21,181 left to raise, the $500,000 Lake Washington Waterway fund is within reach — bankrolled by saloon keepers, a fireman and a hospital sister's $150.
- Seattle Boosts Its Canal Fund, One Property Owner at a Time
A $26,000 day for the Lake Washington waterway campaign brought in $5,000 from Fred E. Sander and a promise of $2,000 from J. H. Larman as boosters sold the canal as a sure way to raise land values.
- Ballard's Electric Company Sold for $1,210—Franchise and All
A receivership sale handed the Ballard Electric Light Company's property and franchise to a mortgagee, while the company's subscription stockholders were written off as 'wholly irresponsible.'
- Seattle Raises Half a Million Dollars for the Lake Washington Canal
Washington's small-town papers marvel as Seattle's wealthy close a $500,000 subscription for the canal — and call it the secret of the city's relentless rise.
- Seattle Packs the Armory to Bet on a Canal
A St. Louis promoter tells a cheering crowd that the city's canal will be built if Seattle raises the subsidy—and the subscription books open that night.