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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1889 | 1 |
1 story matching arth
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:art, arthur, arthurd, arti, artem, artnt
- The City That Couldn't Build: A Letter from a Frustrated Investor
In February 1889, an anonymous writer lambasts Seattle’s Common Council for failing to establish street grades, arguing that this bureaucratic paralysis is the primary reason developers are withholding capital and leaving the city in a building slump.
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- The Art of Survival: A Spokane Woman’s Fight Against Her Husband’s Cruelty
In a case drawing attention from Hillyard to the city courts, Maud Coverly accuses her husband of starvation tactics and physical abuse, revealing the precarious legal standing of working women in 1902.
- The Breathing Well of Yakima
An artesian well on the P. R. Wood property displays strange, inexplicable atmospheric fluctuations.
- Tragedy at Artondale: A Worker Maimed by Dynamite
A laborer near Tacoma is left sightless and near death after a stump-clearing accident goes wrong.