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57 stories matching bloom
- The Battle Over Gold and Greenbacks in Walla Walla
A legal dispute over whether debts must be paid in gold or federal paper money echoes the era's financial uncertainty.
- The Orchardist Who Told the State Its Moth Spraying Was Useless
In 1898, a North Yakima grower argued that the state's codlin-moth spray schedule did not fit the Yakima Valley's climate—and warned that apple and pear growing might be doomed without better field science.
- The Moss-Cloaked Giants of Bay Center
A teacher’s letter from the Pacific Northwest frontier describes a landscape of colossal trees and lush undergrowth, challenging the myth of the harsh pioneer struggle.
- The $3,000 Offer to Salt a Washington Land Claim
An Olympia land-office hearing turns on a state witness’s account of a bribe to fake a mineral discovery—and an expert’s verdict that the ground was worthless.
- The Bloom of Lake Washington
A 64-year-old gardener secures a one-year subscription to the Post-Intelligencer by showcasing 59 varieties of flowers still in bloom during the late autumn chill.
- The Seattle Mill Strike of 1885
When the Yesler Mill announced sudden wage cuts, the workers staged a walkout that paralyzed the waterfront.
- Locked Away for Being a Stranger
A Seattle man traveling to meet his brother in Tacoma finds himself swept up in a case of mistaken identity, thrown into a filthy, unventilated jail cell, and ignored by officials despite his pleas for evidence.
- The $80,000 Cranberry Bog Behind the Ilwaco Beach
A state commissioner tours Pacific County's cranberry marsh — 1,600 acres, 7,280 bushels shipped to San Francisco, 200 pickers at fifty cents a bushel, and a company openly hoping to replace its Chinese crew with white labor.
- A Boiler Explosion Near Mukilteo Kills Two Railroad Men
The Great Northern’s southbound “Owl” wrecked when its locomotive boiler burst, throwing the engineer into Puget Sound and leaving the fireman missing.
- The Gentleman Wood-Sawyer of Seattle
When a young man’s romantic and financial future hung in the balance, he traded his social standing for an axe to impress a boarding-house landlady’s daughter.
- Seattle’s Surprisingly Mild Winter of 1876
While outsiders imagined the Pacific Northwest as a frozen, inhospitable tundra, locals were enjoying a 'genial' December filled with blooming garden flowers.
- The Daffodils Rise: Seattle’s Spring Awakening
As the severe winter finally breaks, gardeners and housewives alike rush to reclaim their yards from the frost, marking a collective seasonal shift in the Pacific Northwest.
- A Town Buries Its Miners
Funeral services for the Blue Canyon mine disaster dead fill Bay View cemetery as a coroner's jury begins asking whether enough air—and enough regulation—reached the men underground.
- Seattle Was Selling Itself by the Lot
A correspondent finds a city crowded with renters, hotels turning travelers away, and speculative prices for even a Fifth Street mud puddle.
- The Coal Creek Massacre: A Coroner’s Inquest into the Battle Between Knights of Labor and Mine Owners
In January 1890, Seattle Sheriff Cochrane deployed militia to Newcastle to suppress a miners' strike. When a riot erupted at Coal Creek, one man was killed and ten arrested. The subsequent coroner's inquest revealed a chaotic scene where union men claimed self-defense against armed mine owners, while the sheriff dismissed the Knights of Labor as 'too excitable.'
- The Desert Blooms: Harnessing the Yakima River
A look at the massive Sunnyside Canal project promising to turn 75,000 acres of arid volcanic ash into a fruit-growing paradise.
- The Newcastle Standoff: Labor’s Last Stand in the Shadow of the Mines
As Seattle prepares for its Fourth of July celebrations, a violent labor dispute in nearby Newcastle threatens to shut down the region's timber industry. The Knights of Labor demand the reinstatement of fired worker Kelly Ramsey, while company officials and county authorities clash over jurisdiction, legality, and the very definition of union power.
- The Desert Blooms: Ellensburg's Massive Irrigation Project
A multi-million dollar canal project is set to transform thousands of acres of sagebrush into fertile farmland, signaling an era of prosperity for Kittitas Valley.
- She Sued Him for $10,000—Then Married Him Before Trial
A long-running Woodinville breach-of-promise case collapsed when a minister, a widow and a reluctant bachelor slipped out of the courthouse and came back married.
- Leavenworth's Flaming Cycle
For the third time in seven years, a massive fire tears through Leavenworth's business district, leaving town leaders to grapple with a lack of water, no fire department, and the question of how to rebuild from nothing.
- The Desert Bloom: Engineering the Yakima Valley
A detailed technical vision for transforming arid plains into a high-yield agricultural engine via irrigation.
- The Orphan’s Plea: A Poem That Moved Seattle to Tears on Decoration Day
As the city honored Civil War dead with solemn processions and speeches, a young girl’s grief over her father’s unmarked grave brought the Grand Marshal to tears.
- The Desert Bloom of Ainsworth
A skeptical traveler discovers a German immigrant coaxing bountiful gardens from the dusty sagebrush plains of the Snake River.
- The Desert Blooms: Artesian Wells Transform Yakima Valley
A successful irrigation experiment promises to reclaim thousands of acres of arid land across Eastern Washington.
- The Desert Blooms: Bringing Irrigation to the Selah Valley
A ambitious engineering effort to bring water to 50,000 acres of arid volcanic ash soil promises to transform the North Yakima region into a premier agricultural hub.
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- The Bloomer Scandal: How a Prank Turned Seattle’s University Women Into Targets
When anonymous circulars labeled the University of Washington’s physical culture class as 'vile calves,' a campus-wide hunt for the culprits revealed the era's intense policing of women's bodies and public space.
- The Bloomer Rebellion: Seattle Girls Defy Censors to Save Their Drill
When anonymous posters labeled the University of Washington’s women’s physical culture class as 'obscene,' a committee of students and faculty mobilized the entire city to remove them—proving that the fight for women's bodily autonomy was already a local sport.
- The Unseasonable Winter Flowers of 1877
A boastful look at Seattle's climate resilience in the face of mid-winter blooms.
- The Bitter Taste of Fruit Returns
White Bluffs growers are reeling after receiving final payouts from the Spokane Fruit Growers Company that fell far short of promised profits.
- A Peach Grower Comes Home Thanking His Lucky Stars
After a winter among California's smudge pots, Kennewick orchardist D. E. Stull decides a frozen navel orange crop is a worse fate than anything Horse Heaven can throw at him.
- Beating the Market Heat
While Portland’s cherry market faces a mid-summer crisis from extreme heat, Kennewick growers are already turning their attention to the next harvest.
- The Desert to Bloom: Federal Engineers Back Massive Irrigation Plan
A definitive federal study deems the Columbia Basin project physically and economically sound, signaling a potential turn in the state’s agricultural future.
- A Mid-Winter Success at Whitman
Student body cheers alumni leader after a successful circus fundraising effort despite bad weather.