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6 stories matching belgian
- Kennewick Plans Benefit Ball for Belgian Relief
The Commercial Club organizes a dance to support humanitarian aid efforts during the early months of the Great War.
- Kennewick Sends Aid to Starving Belgium
Local community rallies to ship flour and beans for overseas war relief.
- The Battle for St. Mary’s Pulpit
A bitter ethnic divide pits Irish and American parishioners against the church hierarchy in Tacoma.
- The Tragedy of a Young Belgian Immigrant
After four years building a life in Kennewick, a local slaughterhouse foreman dies of typhoid, leaving behind a young family.
- The City Hall Standoff That Left a Man Bleeding
A laborer with a mangled foot was denied hospital care due to a convoluted bureaucratic web between the Health Officer, the police, and the Board of Public Works.
- The World at War, Felt in Kennewick
As Europe descends into the First World War, Kennewick residents with roots in Germany, Belgium, and Britain watch the news with growing anxiety and divided loyalties.