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9 stories matching byer
- The Price of a Clerical Error
A contractor’s slip of the pen costs him a major city street grading contract.
- The Milk Scientist
A breakthrough in chemical detection methods brings local scientists together to test the deadly effects of formaldehyde in the food supply.
- The Contract Wife Who Would Not Be Shaken Off
Florence Bucklin Byers followed a wealthy Chilean consul to California, then returned to Port Townsend vowing to enforce their handwritten marriage contract—or sue him for divorce.
- The Battle Over Public Power in Seattle
A new citizens' association forms to oppose Initiative 52, arguing that municipal expansion into private power markets threatens the tax base.
- The Dry Party That Wanted Woman Suffrage, Equal Pay and Public Railroads
One hundred and fifty Prohibitionists from thirteen Washington counties met in Tacoma in 1894 and wrote a platform that went far beyond liquor — endorsing votes for women, equal wages regardless of sex, government ownership of railroads and telegraphs, and the forfeiture of unearned land grants.
- The Trial of the 'Commonwealers'
Deputy marshals recount the violent confrontation between strikers and authorities during the march of the Industrial Army.
- A Judge Called Unpaid Hotel Work 'Mild Larceny'—and Freed the Bellboy Who Stole $1.15
Nathan Sanguinetti, a West Indian bellboy at Seattle's Rainier Hotel, was convicted of stealing a planted purse. When Judge Humes learned the hotel had made him work 18 months without pay, he called that the real crime—and a pardon followed.
- The City’s Call for Child Labor
A 1892 classified section reveals the casual exploitation of youth, alongside a frantic city infrastructure project that mirrors modern growth pains.
- The Industrial Army’s Plea from Behind Bars
A committee of incarcerated laborers writes to the ladies of the relief corps, describing the cruel conditions of their transport to Spokane.