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89 stories matching breweri
- Three Small Breweries, Thirty Acres, and a Thirsty Pacific
Seven years after two men opened a shed-sized brewery in South Seattle, the consolidated Seattle Brewing and Malting Company was shipping lager to Honolulu, Australia and Japan — and boasting that it had made the city the brewing capital of the Northwest.
- Seattle's Brewery Workers Refuse a Ten-Hour Day
The city's brewers want longer shifts and unpaid Saturday work. Their men's union says no — and the fight goes to a Sunday meeting that could set the pattern for every brewery on the Coast.
- The Brewery Workers’ Stand of 1892
Seattle brewery workers hold the line against a forced return to ten-hour days and mandatory unpaid Sunday labor.
- The Brewery Alibi
A burglary suspect at Duwamish claims he spent the night of the crime butchering a roadkill cow for a brewery engineer.
- The Saloon Was Their Paycheck: Everett Labor’s Fight Against Prohibition
In November 1910, Everett’s union locals — cigar makers, brewery workers, bartenders, cooks and waiters — urged a vote for license, warning that Prohibition would throw hundreds out of work and scatter their families.
- The Van Valley Bottling Works Remains Unfair
A labor dispute over wages and union jurisdiction continues to heat up in Everett.
- The Pride of the Frontier: Mukilteo’s Eagle Brewery
A legacy of 19th-century Pacific Northwest industry, where the Eagle Brewery staked its claim as the premier producer of beer in the territory.
- Brewery Workers Strike in Everett
A labor dispute over wages at the Van Valey Bottling Works leads to an order for local drivers to cease work.
- The Bloody Hammer and the Brewer's Wife
Seattle prosecutors rest their murder case against Craemer after a courtroom day of fire, hidden gold, and a suspect whose hands shook at the sight of the weapon.
- The Pulpit vs. The Machine: A Mayor’s Brewing Scandal
A fiery sermon accusing the Mayor of being an attorney for a powerful brewery ignites a political furor, revealing the uneasy intersections of church, commerce, and city hall.
- Walla Walla Editor Shoots Brewery Owner
A political leader and newspaper man fires on a local businessman after a dispute over a published critique of the brewery's beer.
- Milwaukee Brewers Eye Yakima
A Wisconsin brewmaster selects North Yakima for a new industrial hub, signaling a shift in regional beer production.
- The Brewery Worker Who Dreamed of Marrying Bismarck’s Daughter
Known only as “Bismarck,” a Bay View brewery employee was found drowned at the mouth of the Duwamish—still chasing a delusion that he was bound for Germany and an imperial marriage.
- The Brewery Bill Comes to Kennewick
Campaigners visit Kennewick to promote an initiative to allow the brewing of beer within Washington State despite Prohibition.
- The Tragic End of a Lonely Immigrant
A German immigrant, once prosperous and educated, dies by suicide in a lonely cabin on the Grant Street Bridge after years of decline and heartbreak.
- Sniper Fire on the Seattle Commuter Line
Commuters on a Northern Pacific train near the Seattle brewery had a brush with death after a bullet shattered their carriage window.
- The Convicted Murderer’s German Fortune and the Lawyer’s $5,000 Notes
Henry Craemer, jailed for killing a mother and child, says a rumored inheritance turned his appeal into a fight over legal fees and control of his case.
- The Beer War of Puyallup
When the Puyallup city council halted new liquor licenses, the local brewing industry retaliated with an economic embargo on the valley’s hop farmers.
- Sixteen-Year-Old Karl Thompson Drowns in Chehalis River
A boat capsizes near an old brewery, leaving a sixteen-year-old boy dead.
- A Farmhand’s Violent Break in Eureka Flat
After terrorizing his neighbors, a worker goes on a wild, clothes-tearing spree fueled by alcohol.
- A Streetcar, a Dark Curve, and Four Feet of Water
A brewery worker fell from a Grant Street car into the Seattle tide flats. Rescuers reached him too late—even though the water was shallow.
- The $100,000 Mill: Seattle’s Legalized Lottery for a Fortune
In 1876, the Washington Territory authorized a massive public lottery to fund a road across the Cascades. The grand prize? A fully operational steam sawmill and prime real estate in downtown Seattle.
- The Battle Over Local Option Prohibition
As the Washington State Senate debates a new 'local option' liquor bill, a fierce lobby of brewery interests and prohibitionists descends upon Olympia.
- The Brewery Brawl
A local assault case reaches a strange legal impasse when a prosecutor is asked to define whether a beer keg constitutes a deadly weapon.
- The Brewery Moves On After Everett Goes Dry
Local industry shifts its sights from local taps to the export market following the city's prohibition vote.
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- The Beer Trust Comes to Seattle
Three major local breweries have consolidated into the 'Seattle Brewing and Malting Company' to eliminate cutthroat competition.
- The Peril of the 'Brewers' Bill'
As Washington state votes on prohibition initiatives, one local columnist warns that voters are being misled about the true impact of the proposed 'Brewers' Bill' on state law.
- The Battle Over Initiative 24
A leading activist warns local women that the 'Brewers' Bill' is a veiled threat to the state's hard-won prohibition laws.
- A Recruiting Tour of the Sound
P.E. Brewer, a member of the Puyallup tribe, travels the Sound to recruit students for the Chemawa Indian School.