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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1903 | 2 |
| 1904 | 38 |
| 1909 | 32 |
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- The First Annual Tacoma High School Cross-Country Run
High school athletes brave snowy conditions to set new records in the city's first cross-country race.
- Wealthy Country Club Ransacked at American Lake
Thieves made off with $300 worth of fine apparel and food, leaving the Country club management baffled.
- The Man Who Lived Here Twenty Years—and Still Had to Go
Max Vanderville had been in the country for two decades but never became a citizen. Now a morals charge sends him back to Holland.
- The Pacific Coast’s Fear of ‘Asiatic Hordes’
A look at the xenophobic political rhetoric fueling defense spending and exclusionary sentiment in 1909 Washington.
- The Unintended Cross-Country Runner
A postal worker’s bicycle breakdown in Marysville leads to a terrifying, high-speed foot race with a black bear.
- The Fight for Public Water Power
As corporations scramble to monopolize the nation's rivers, the Times argues that the government must intervene before water becomes a private commodity.
- The Tragedian and the Seventy-Cent Bill
A famous actor finds himself haunted by a small, unpaid restaurant check that follows him across the country like a bad omen.
- The State's Long-Overdue Debt to Country Editors
After months of carrying the state's land sale advertisements on credit, Washington's rural newspapers are finally seeing a payout.
- Tacoma’s Japanese Community Rallies for Red Cross
Local Japanese residents organize a fundraiser to support the Red Cross society of Japan during the Russo-Japanese War.
- The Strange Disappearance of Mrs. Nelson
An attorney’s secret knowledge of a missing woman's whereabouts comes to light only after her husband passes away from grief.
- Forest Fires Ravage Vashon and Peninsula
Settlers battle encroaching brush fires across Vashon Island and the mainland near Olalla.
- The American Danger: A Turn-of-the-Century Manifesto
A jingoistic editorial from the Tacoma Times defining the nation's sense of self and global superiority in 1904.
- The 'Messiah' of North Tacoma
After his arrest for assault, police uncovered a stash of love letters from women across the country who believed Joshua Klein was a spiritual master.
- The City’s Grasping Monopoly
Tacoma’s editorial board calls out corporate greed and local political complacency regarding the city’s power infrastructure.
- Eatonville Doctor Accused of Taking School Funds
A physician is accused of embezzling district funds, sparking a frantic manhunt across the Puget Sound region.
- A Cold Case Reopened in the Shadows of Lake Washington
Two men have been transported through Tacoma to face trial for a two-year-old murder, allegedly sparked by a debt between peddlers.
- The Unwelcome Guest of Old Town
A Norwegian immigrant facing vagrancy charges finds himself sentenced to the street-sweeping squad.
- Two Chinese Men Ordered Deported After Prison Term
Lee Wung and Wun Lung were ordered deported for lacking immigration papers after serving a year for forgery—a minor hearing inside the era's exclusion machine.
- Lecture on the African American Experience
Dr. I. W. B. Bowen of Atlanta addresses the First Methodist Church regarding the progress and social challenges of the Black community.
- The Great Kapowsin Safe Heist
After bandits blew open a safe and vanished into the night, police are left with no clues and a ghost train.
- Expansion of the Puyallup Indian School
The federal government announces plans for new facilities at the Puyallup Indian School to increase educational capacity.
- The Lawyer's Stranglehold on Governance
A scathing editorial arguing that the legal profession’s devotion to precedent over progress is choking American democracy.
- Refugees Fleeing the Russian Empire Reach Tacoma
Two Jewish merchants arrive in Tacoma after a thousand-mile sledge journey to escape military persecution in Vladivostok.
- The Road to South Tacoma is a Muddy Mess
Business leaders complain that the main thoroughfare connecting Tacoma to its southern prairie is in such disrepair that it is throttling local trade.
- Electrician Lost in Narrows During Gale
A Seattle man is presumed dead after attempting a perilous rowboat crossing of the Narrows during a storm.