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- Grasshopper Plague Threatens Yakima Valley Crops
A rapid infestation of insects on the reservation has farmers fearing for their summer harvest.
- The Lovers’ Lane of Snohomish
A newly constructed plank road, intended for industrial timber transit, becomes an unlikely promenade for the town's romantic youth.
- The Price of Plutocracy
As violence erupts at the Homestead Steel Works, an Aberdeen editorial probes the rot of industrial concentration and the rise of a new American caste system.
- Pink Eye Outbreak in Tacoma
A highly infectious eye ailment has hit the city, causing suffering and concern among residents.
- The Real Estate and Money Brokers of the Pacific Coast: 'Collect Instead of Pay Rents'
A bold advertisement in the Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer invites locals to become landlords rather than tenants, promising that Seattle will double in population within twelve months.
- The Domestic Help Crisis of 1891
As the Pacific Northwest boomed, the P-I warned that a 'growing distaste' for housework among the working class threatened to turn the domestic service shortage into a bigger issue than currency reform.
- The Eight-Hour Law Backlash
Young workers organize against labor reform, fearing the end of Saturday half-holidays and annual vacations.
- Federal Dollars Head to Kennewick Fields
The U.S. Department of Agriculture formally integrates Benton County’s agricultural oversight into its federal mission.
- The Newspaper Feud of 1876
A local editor’s blistering public breakdown of an auditor who dared to write letters to the editor.
- The Drive for Anti-Chinese Ordinances in 1885 Seattle
A local petition sought to bar Chinese laborers from laundry businesses and vegetable peddling, laying the groundwork for a wave of exclusionary legislation.
- The Commuter Frontier: Rails Extend to Lake Washington
A New Year’s Day opening of the Rainier Avenue Electric Line promises to transform suburban residential life along the lake.
- The Real Estate Scramble for Lake Washington
A newly opened electric rail line promises to turn the shores of Lake Washington into the next suburban real estate gold rush.
- Relocating Nuisance Beavers to Save Orchards
Game commission transplants beavers from Okanogan orchards to mountain streams to prevent damage and boost water conservation.
- The Electric Line to the Lake: Seattle's Suburban Dream
A newly opened electric rail line promises to turn the shores of Lake Washington into a suburban paradise, sparking a scramble for prime real estate.
- The Abandoned Souls of the North
Tragic reports from the Yukon reveal that ill gold-seekers are being expelled by Canadian authorities, leaving them to fend for themselves on American soil.
- The 'Street Arabs' Terrorizing Pioneer Seattle
A wave of juvenile vandalism strikes Front Street, leaving local merchants and the South School House in ruins.
- 1914 Ballot: Noncitizen Residents and City Land Ownership
Voters are asked to decide if resident aliens should be allowed to own land within municipal corporations.
- The Growing Ambition of the Aberdeen Shipyards
With some of the longest ship timbers in the world, the local yards aim to become a premier shipbuilding hub.
- The Battle for Olympia's Waterfront
A local judicial candidate sparks a red-hot municipal contest by claiming public tide lands for his own, setting the stage for a bitter election fight.
- The Looming Transition: Homesteaders Face Bureaucratic Limbo
As Washington prepares for statehood, federal land officers warn settlers that their pending homestead proofs may become legally invalid overnight.
- Was Newport About to Become Idaho? A Federal Boundary Survey Raised the Question
A Senate committee advanced a bill to mark the 185-mile Washington-Idaho line, and Newport residents began to speculate that the border might move west—or that Idaho land might become Washington.
- The Bear Who Drank the Molasses: A Lumber Camp Disaster
A hungry black bear broke into a West Branch Lumber Company supply shed in Washington's Cascade Mountains, getting hopelessly stuck in a keg of molasses and becoming a spectacle for the workers.
- The Unpaid Labor of Survival
Martha Jane Hall files for divorce, citing a decade of her husband's refusal to work or provide, leaving her to support their three children alone.
- The Fading Mineral Palace
Citizens petition to remove the aging, unsightly 'Mineral Palace' from Pioneer Place.
- The Streetcar Boom of 1891
A new electric line to Lake Washington promises to turn suburban wilderness into a goldmine, triggering a scramble for land.