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23 stories matching brood
- The Art of Caponizing
A state college demonstration in North Bend showcases the rising interest in caponizing as an efficient way to manage poultry and brooding chicks.
- The Unlikely Mother of Orting
An affectionate feline in the town of Orting defies nature by adopting a brood of chicks as her own.
- The Price of a Bank Failure
After the Merchants' National Bank of Tacoma collapsed, a local shopkeeper lost his life savings and his mental stability, eventually seeking refuge in a Seattle jail.
- The Moth That Ate Washington's Apple Boom
Government experts blamed the codlin moth for ruining a quarter of the nation's apples each year. In Walla Walla and along the Snake River, some orchardists were already pulling up trees in despair.
- Mental Breakdown of Walla Walla Auctioneer
Business pressures and the stress of testifying in a high-profile arson trial are cited as the cause of a sudden collapse.
- Despair and Isolation at the Hotel Shannon
A struggling laborer ends his life in a Walla Walla hotel room after being unable to find work or support.
- The Razor’s Edge: A Wenatchee Family Erased in One Night
On July 13, 1905, Charles H. Davis, a former bartender, killed his wife and infant son before taking his own life at their Boone Avenue home.
- A Prisoner’s Descent Into Delusion in Everett
A man awaiting extradition for murder in the Everett jail claims to be under a 'divine' sentence, prompting local officials to question his sanity.
- 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 Patriotic Duty of the Pig
With the nation facing a severe meat shortage during the Great War, local agricultural officials pushed Benton County farmers to increase hog production, framing the effort as a vital sacrifice for soldiers.
- A Night of Vengeance in Horse Heaven
Twenty-eight draft animals were found slaughtered in a calculated act of malice, suspected to be the work of a disgruntled farmhand.
- A Jackson Street Attack, and the Laundryman Who Would Not Let It Go
A repeat offender punched three Chinese men outside a laundry; a booking error let him off lightly, until one victim pressed his own assault charge.
- The Poultry and Pig Scam
Fly-by-night promoters are preying on Washington farmers with fraudulent 'poultry association' memberships and deceptive hog-buyback schemes.
- The Boom in Kennewick’s Hog Industry
As wheat prices fluctuate, local farmers are advised to pivot toward diversified livestock to ensure stability.
- The War on the Homefront: A Farmer's Angry Rebuke
An open letter calls out the 'lack of practical patriotism' among Benton County farmers failing to support the war effort through livestock production.
- The Great Chicken Flood of 1892
When the waters of Grays Harbor rose in the night, the town's backyard livestock paid the ultimate price in a bizarre local tragedy.
- The Hog Hedge: A Palouse Farmer's Strategy Against Low Wheat Prices
While grain markets slumped, one shrewd farmer used hog-raising to effectively boost his wheat profits by feeding his surplus crop to livestock.
- The Price of Discontent: A Warning from the 1877 Panic
While Seattle thrives on the steady hum of mills and logging camps, a Seattle editor warns citizens against petty grievances by recounting the harrowing hunger and unemployment plaguing the rest of the country.
- The Ethics of the Office: Fighting the 'Spoils' System in 1876 Seattle
A local official refuses to trade his political independence for employment, sparking a public debate over corruption, civil service reform, and the 'party hacks' of the Gilded Age.
- The Tragedy of Owen Hughes
After losing his savings in a series of failed business ventures and railroad deals, an aging hospital steward chooses to end his life at a Seattle hotel.
- The Vampire of Hard Times: Why Seattle's Banks Are Starving Its Growth
An editorial in the March 1877 *Seattle Intelligencer* blames the region’s economic stagnation not on a lack of enterprise, but on predatory lending rates that are strangling local industry.
- The County Farm That Feeds the Poor—and Buries Its Unknown Dead
Diked, drained and worked by its own patients, King County's poor farm on the Duwamish is nearly feeding itself, with a new potter's field filling at its southern edge.
- A Church Scandal Erupts in a Seattle Libel Trial
M. H. Nichols stood accused of criminally libeling Presiding Elder T. B. Ford. The defense spent the day trading rumors, old grudges, and one complaint about the prosecutor's booming voice.