Research the archive
Narrow 25,688 newspaper stories by words, years, place, newspaper and subject. See when and where they ran, then download what you find.
Put a phrase in quotes ("rent strike") or leave a word out with a minus (strike -baseball). Old scans misspell names, so when little is found, near-spellings are offered.
Refine
Show the numbers
| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1888 | 1 |
1 story matching atterton
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:chatterton, atherton, aton, alderton, allerton, atterburi
- The Day the Knights Came to Town
A delegation of Redmen from Port Townsend arrives in Seattle for a ceremonial gathering, greeted by crowds and banquets.
Also about this, in other words
- A Leap Into the Dark on the Tracks of Tacoma
A desperate local businessman chose a violent end on a moving train in South Tacoma, leaving a grieving family and a community to reckon with his tragic decision.
- Gunfire Before Midnight: The Bratton Tragedy in Tacoma
Isaac Henry Bratton, 41, shot his wife and then himself at their Tacoma home. The couple had come from Missouri two years earlier and left three children.
- A Hotel-Keeper's Last Night: The Saloon Shooting at Sultan
George Britton, 28, shot through the groin in a saloon row in the Snohomish County timber town of Sultan, is told he will not last the afternoon — so he sends for a preacher and a lawyer and makes his will.
- A Tacoma Marriage Ends in Murder and Suicide
Isaac H. Bratton shot his wife and then himself after weeks of suspicion, religious friction, and threats—a domestic tragedy that consumed a Tacoma household.
- The Detective, the Forger, and the Silverton Fiancée
Detective Sam Sumner captures a smooth-talking con man who posed as a Northern Pacific railroad official and nearly married into a Silverton family.