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- The Perilous Fishing Trip of Two Seattle Daredevils
Two young men’s weekend getaway turned into a two-day survival ordeal when they were swept away by tide and wind in the Puget Sound.
- The Real Estate Frenzy of 1889
A local columnist offers a wry, cynical peek at the movers, shakers, and hustlers reshaping the streetscape of Seattle during the great land boom.
- The Mayor’s Disastrous Canoe Exhibition
Mayor K. K. Nichols’ attempt to impress campers on Lake Natchez ends in a humiliating splash.
- The Sheriff’s Frustration with Aberdeen’s Courts
A local officer vents his rage at the judicial system after a robbery investigation falls apart.
- Aberdeen’s Reform Council Accused of Cronyism
Citizens allege the newly elected council is trading public offices for personal favors instead of cleaning up city hall.
- The Tragedy of the Dancing Mouse
A tiny creature with a flair for the dramatic met her end while trying to enjoy a violin performance in the comfort of a private home.
- The Parade Ground Is Now a Ward: A Visitor Walks the Territory's Asylum
Where the 4th Infantry once drilled to fife and drum, a correspondent finds sagging fences, two overworked keepers to a men's ward, and a lone matron holding the women's department — all on an appropriation he calls 'a shame to our people.'
- A Final Insult for a Fallen Engineer
After an Everett railroad engineer died in a tragic mountain fall, his employers refused to pay for his transport, offering only a boxcar for the journey home.
- A Fifty-Year Franchise for All-Night Power
Officials from the Northern Idaho and Montana Electric Light and Power Co. toured Newport, sketched a town-wide distribution system, and asked the city council for a half-century franchise.
- The Color Line at the Temple: Seattle’s Masonic Order Faces National Backlash
As the Grand Lodge of Washington convenes at the Masonic Temple to debate racial segregation in its ranks, telegrams from across the country reveal a deep national fracture over 'Negro Masonry.'
- The Olympia Pianist Who Claimed Franz Liszt Taught Him Through a Window
A local musician known as the sage of Sherman Valley told a Tribune reporter that as a boy in Westphalia he stole piano lessons from the great Franz Liszt—until Liszt pulled him through the window and set him on his knee.
- The Potatoes Looked Fine on Top
A Moxee grower went to Seattle to sell 27 tons of Burbanks and came back with a warning about crooked packing and the damage to the Yakima name.
- The Rose Thief of James Street
A Seattle gardener threatens to deploy a bulldog—or forty—after midnight raids carry off her prize roses, including the star-crossed Baron and Baroness.
- A Judge Takes Aim at Seattle's Charter Reformers
Judge Orange Jacobs mocks the men who promised a new city charter would cure every municipal ill — and doubts any document can make people honest.
- The Widow, the Pallbearer, and the Seduction Charge That Set Fourth Avenue Fighting
A middle-aged widow says her young neighbor promised marriage; his mother says otherwise. A Seattle justice court hears a scandal of grief, gossip and a hidden suitor behind a door.
- Old Bill Davis, Bare-Knuckle Champion, Arrives to Open Seattle Gym
A 63-year-old former world champion shares a life spanning the Mexican War, the California Gold Rush, and consular posts in Japan and China—and picks the winners for the Sullivan-Corbett fight.
- Seattle’s Forgotten Filipino Poets—and the Prejudice They Turned into Verse
A 1928 Filipino Forum essay introduces Narciso Ines and a circle of Northwest poets writing beauty and protest from the margins of Seattle life.
- Ida May Love Went to Sea as 'Dan McArdle'
A Whatcom newlywed walked out on her husband, her skirts and her name to serve seven weeks aboard the warship Monterey — and the Post-Intelligencer tracked her to a Leavenworth dance hall, where she was still talking about 'us boys.'
- Trapped by the Tide on the Road to Queets
In 1892, poet Herbert Bashford joined a camping party for a walk up Washington’s wild Olympic coast—and found the rising tide more dangerous than any highwayman.