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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1904 | 7 |
| 1909 | 8 |
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- Clergyman Declares 'The Flat and Rooming House is a Curse'
Dr. M.A. Matthews criticizes modern housing and argues that a woman's sphere is strictly within the domestic home.
- Georgetown Declares Itself an 'Open Town'
Local officials abandon the fight against vice, allowing gambling tables to move from back rooms into plain sight.
- Tacoma's Congressman Betrays the People in D.C.
Francis W. Cushman aligns with political bosses, voting against rules that would have allowed for greater congressional transparency and legislative accountability.
- Railroad Giant Grants Land Reprieve to Settlers
After losing the 'overlap' land court battle, the Northern Pacific Railway signals it will let families stay on their homesites.
- City Council Mulls Municipal Asphalt Plant
Proponents argue that a city-run paving operation could cut costs by 10 percent, potentially paying for its own installation in just two jobs.
- The Miracle Lifters of Tacoma
A local construction firm successfully raises a massive six-story Seattle hotel that cracked during tunnel excavation.
- City Council Awards Commissioner Pay Raise While Denying Health Workers
While Commissioner McGregor received a 50% salary increase without requesting it, the council flatly refused to increase the meager $60 monthly pay for sanitary inspectors working in hazardous conditions.
- The Northern Pacific's Tacoma Depot Is a Rat-Infested Shed
While the railroad pours a quarter-million into a new Seattle terminal, Tacoma commuters are left with a miserable shack.
- The Great Puyallup Potato Feud
A minor dispute over five trespassing pigs and a potato patch escalates from a neighborhood grievance to the Pierce County Superior Court.
- Endicott's Russian Immigrants Defy Czarist Loyalty
Local Russian immigrants in Whitman County express solidarity with Japan, citing personal trauma under the Russian regime.
- The End of the Railroad's Good Old Boys
Tacoma's long-standing era of railroad tax manipulation ends as the Northern Pacific transitions from backroom whiskey diplomacy to formal tax accounting.
- The Lieutenant Governor’s Moral Steamroller
Lieutenant Governor M. E. Hay asserts his influence in Olympia, taking a hardline stance on public morality and political accountability.
- Tacoma's Women Take On the Bakers Over Wrapped Bread
A committee of pure-food reformers and a dozen bakers squared off before the city council's health committee over an ordinance requiring bread be wrapped — with more than 1,000 women enlisted behind the fight.
- The Anti-Saloon League Tells Tacoma's Churchgoers to Get Their Hands Dirty
A packed house at the First Presbyterian church heard the national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League argue that pious voters who stay out of politics are the reason the saloons stay open — and that the worst anarchist in town is the official who picks which laws to enforce.
- Tacoma's 1909 Fight to Own Its Power
On the eve of a city election, advocates urged voters to approve a $2 million municipal light and power plant—and warned the private power trust would lie to stop them.