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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1904 | 4 |
| 1909 | 4 |
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- Old Tacoma Scandal Returns to Haunt Attorney
A former Tacoma lawyer arrested in New York for mail fraud was once accused of tampering with public records locally.
- Vanderbilt Land Deal on Commerce Street
The Pacific Trust Company acquires a downtown building from George and Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt.
- County Public Assistance Funds Nearing Exhaustion
Mounting relief costs for Pierce County’s indigent population leave officials scrambling as funds run dry before the fiscal year's end.
- Social Club’s Liquor License Gambit Fails
A club for 'colored gentlemen' finds their strategy to circumvent licensing laws derailed by a bureaucratic oversight in their incorporation paperwork.
- A Wedding Across the Color Line in Walla Walla
A local preacher marries a white girl and her Chinese partner after her mother grants formal consent.
- State House Scandals Force Reckoning
Legislative committee tightens the net around officials amid corruption allegations.
- The Bureaucracy of Getting Hitched
A deputy clerk at the Pierce County courthouse recounts the chaotic, comical, and bureaucratic hurdles faced by couples seeking marriage licenses.
- The Rockets Turned Around: Tacoma's Fourth of July Went Up in a Sheet of Flame
A spark touched off the entire $500 pyrotechnic stock at Wright Park, driving rockets and bombs into a crowd of thousands and leaving women and children burned, trampled and briefly lost in the smoke.