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- The Wild Council Deadlock of Ellensburg
After months of political stalemate, kidnapping threats, and accusations of illegal voting, the founder of Ellensburg is finally ousted from the mayor's office.
- The Ferry Museum’s Fight for Wright Park
Tacoma’s park board debates the ethics of placing a commercial museum inside public green space.
- Cheers, Hisses and a Canal: The Night Tacoma Cheered the Ditch It Was Told Would Ruin It
At a packed Republican mass-meeting in Germania Hall, speaker after speaker dared the crowd to believe the Lake Washington canal would destroy Tacoma — and the crowd roared back that it would not.
- Newport's Schools Burst at the Seams as the Town Booms
Enrollment growth pushes School District No. 115 past capacity, forcing directors to weigh new bonds and a second building.
- Adlai Stevenson’s Name Was the Bait in a Port Townsend Loan Swindle
A man claiming to be the Vice President’s cousin sold shares in a building-and-loan association, promising loans on Port Townsend real estate that never came.
- Washington Territory's Missing Land Maps
Would-be settlers at Walla Walla say no one can show them the government tracts they came for—and railroad lands are not what they want.
- The Fight Over the Cascade Mountain Pass
A debate unfolds regarding whether the Northern Pacific should build its new Cascade line through the Naches Pass or the Stampede Pass.
- The Courthouse Math Behind a Judge-Shrinking Plan
Tacoma officials weigh merging the Pierce and Thurston judicial districts to save $10,000 a year, even as prosecutors ask for more help.
- A Judge's Booster Sermon for the Ship Canal
Fresh from Yakima, Judge J. R. Lewis predicts a timber-and-canal boom and urges Seattle to raise a $500,000 subsidy for the South Canal.
- The Burglars in the Pioneer Building
A late-night police search for mischievous boys ends with the arrest of two men carrying a collection of stolen trinkets.
- The Forgotten Youth of Washington Territory
A minister's impassioned crusade to establish the territory's first state-funded school for the deaf, blind, and feeble-minded.
- The Forgotten Trail to Eastern Washington
A pioneer’s 1862 route across the Cascades is touted as the next great gateway to mining wealth.
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- A Painful Mishap at the Mill
While working in the busy industrial quarter of Seattle, a laborer suffers a horrific injury to his arm.
- The Man Who Sold Yakima Valley a New Miracle Crop Every Week
A Seattle farm journal accuses the Post-Intelligencer of letting Joel Shomaker tout Russian brome grass, teosinte, ginseng and squabs as the valley's next sure fortune.
- The Hot Linseed Poultice: A Seattle Marriage Ends in Burns and Bankruptcy
When Mrs. Water’s anger boiled over, she didn’t just yell—she slapped a steaming poultice of linseed mush onto her husband’s head. The Superior Court had to decide if this was cruelty or just a bad day.
- Sweetening the Valley: A Wartime Suggestion
With sugar rations looming during the Great War, one local farmer suggests Kennewick turn to home-grown sorghum syrup.
- The Milk That Made Kent Grow
Kent's condenseries turn White River Valley milk into Carnation and baby food, and a struggling village becomes a dairy boomtown.
- The Miracle Crop of Pine Place
A Snohomish County farmer introduces a mysterious, giant grain he claims out-yields every other variety in the region.
- Conflicting Advice from the O-W, R. N. Company
The town is perplexed by contradictory expert demonstrations from the railroad—one telling them to raise hogs, the other telling them to stop using lard in baking.
- The High Cost of Calf-Busting
Two young boys in the Highlands learn the hard way that bronco-busting isn't quite as easy when the bronco is a farm calf.