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8 stories matching atlanta

  1. 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.

    Jun 22, 1904The Tacoma TimesFirst Methodist Church, Tacoma, Pierce CountyExclusion & Resistance

  2. A Quarter-Century Later, Three Civil War Comrades Find Each Other in Seattle

    Decades after the chaos of the march to the sea and a fateful skirmish near Atlanta, three messmates from the Twenty-third Missouri Infantry shared a surprise reunion in Seattle.

    Jan 23, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King County

  3. The Grim Toll of the Upper Columbia

    Multiple unidentified bodies recovered near Kettle Falls, sparking a grim puzzle of identity and drownings along the river.

    Sep 1, 1893The Seattle Post-IntelligencerKettle Falls, Stevens CountyTrue Crime

  4. The Industrial Armies on the Move

    Across the West, unemployed men organized as 'Coxeyites' or 'Industrial Armies' are clashing with law enforcement and rail companies as they travel toward Washington, D.C.

    May 18, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSpokane, Spokane CountyWork & Pay

  5. The Tragedy on the Jackson Street Trestle

    An elderly man, fleeing police custody, fell through a gap in the wooden street bridge and plunged thirty feet to his death.

    Aug 28, 1889The Seattle Post-IntelligencerJackson Street, Seattle, King CountyCity Hall · Disasters

  6. The Waterfront Showdown of 1877

    A mob attempts to forcibly eject Chinese laborers from a coal ship, but is repelled by a quick-thinking mate and his revolver.

    Jan 24, 1877The Daily IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyExclusion & Resistance

  7. The Confederate Major Who Set Type in Seattle

    A German-born printer who saw Fort Sumter bombarded and later joined Seattle's typographical union died at Providence Hospital, taking an improbable Civil War past with him.

    Apr 4, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyWork & Pay · Local Legends

  8. The Governor Who Filled Washington Returns, and Finds It Full

    Sixteen years after leaving office, former territorial governor Edward Salomon walks back into an Olympia hotel and finds old friends grown wealthy — and a young state he helped populate now competing with Seattle and Tacoma for its own future.

    Nov 20, 1891The Olympia TribuneOlympia Hotel, Olympia, Thurston CountyBoom & Bust · City Hall

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