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| Year | Stories |
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| 1903 | 1 |
| 1904 | 21 |
| 1909 | 22 |
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- A Runaway at Sixteen
A teenage girl's disappearance sparks a search after she runs off with a local performer.
- The Lawyer and the Asylum
A young Tacoma attorney faces a harsh public trial of his mental health as his own father testifies against him in court.
- Local Boy Runs Away to Live Like a Hero in a Book
An 11-year-old Tacoma boy has disappeared with $11, seemingly inspired by 'yellow-covered' adventure novels.
- A Toddler’s Cough Saves a Family from Fire
An 18-month-old infant is credited with waking his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Joslyn, just in time to escape a house fire in South Tacoma.
- The Unlucky Forger Caught in Puyallup
After jumping from Seattle to Oregon, a man wanted for forgery and a Seattle jailbreak is apprehended at his parents' home.
- The Parents Said Tacoma's Schools Were Failing. The Typesetter Who Set Their Letter Answered Back.
A frustrated parent writes in to say the city schools teach paper-folding instead of arithmetic; a linotype operator at the same paper — and a Tacoma graduate himself — replies that the trouble may lie closer to home.
- The Anti-Vaccination Protest of 1909
Tacoma parents, barred from sending their children to public schools, organize a legislative campaign against compulsory vaccination laws.
- Worker Killed in Tacoma Gravel Pit Slide
A young laborer was buried beneath a wall of sand at a North End worksite.
- Nine-Year-Old Boy Sent to Industrial Home
A child is removed from his foster home after the county attorney labels his lack of supervision as 'criminal tendencies.'
- A New Year's Pardon for the Boy Who Went to Prison at Seventeen
Oscar Bradshaw, convicted of murder at Pasco in 1906 and sentenced to life, walks out of the penitentiary at twenty — on the condition that he go home and support his crippled father.
- A Dead Unmarried Worker Was Worth Nothing—Until This Law
Washington's legislature finally let dependent parents and siblings sue when a provider was killed on the job, ending a rule that made unmarried workers cheaper to kill than to maim.
- Lockwood Hansen, 18, Faces Amputation After Launch Propeller Accident
A young worker faces the loss of his limb after a horrific accident involving a naphtha launch propeller.
- Demented Girl Rescued from Puyallup Reservation
After being found chained to an outhouse floor, a young Indigenous girl has secured a place at an asylum.
- Infant Abandoned on Auburn Porch
An unknown motorist dropped a two-hour-old baby boy on Alfred Collins' doorstep in the middle of the night.
- A Heartbreaking Departure for Reform
A teenage girl thanked the judge who sentenced her to a reform school in Chehalis for stealing clothes.
- The Tragic Death of Katherine Paetz
A young woman is found dead in a shack after fleeing home following a family dispute over her romantic choice.
- The Tragedy of Pearl Johnson
A young girl's repeated cycles of addiction and family heartbreak highlight the limitations of early 20th-century social intervention.
- The Search for a Missing Messenger
A fourteen-year-old boy vanishes in Tacoma, leaving behind a family estate and a desperate search for his whereabouts.
- The Streetcar Thief Who Traded Booze for a Pardon
A young man who hijacked a Tacoma streetcar avoided jail by swearing off cigarettes and alcohol for nearly a decade.
- Buckley Teens Navigate Legal Hurdle to Marry
A young orphan and his teenage bride-to-be were initially turned away from the marriage license window, but a creative legal intervention allowed the wedding to proceed.
- A Runaway's Return
A Parkland father reunites with his son after spotting his face in a newspaper report about a train sabotage arrest in Ballard.
- A Fourteen-Year-Old’s Ordeal Highlights Urban Dangers
After Bessie Cook leaves home, she tells a harrowing account to police that leads to the arrest of a Tacoma bartender.
- Tragedy on Sixth Avenue
A young child dies after a tragic accident at home while her father was working at his pharmacy downstairs.
- The Cultist Behind Bars
Joshua Klein, held in the county jail, claims to be receiving telepathic messages from his followers in Vienna while parents demand their daughters return home.
- The Temperance Fight Hits Local Garrisons
Legislators move to ban saloons near military homes, targeting Orting and Puget Sound shipyards in a sweeping dry campaign.