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2 stories matching campion
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- Seattle Rallies for the Franklin Mine’s Widows and Orphans
A relief fund grows by small donations, Black Seattleites organize their own drive, and officials seal the burning mine to starve the fire.
- A Runaway Horse Crashes Into a Tacoma Shop
A spooked horse hitched to a cutter careened down St. Helens Avenue before smashing through a storefront, meeting a tragic end.
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- A Frontier Reckoning
A chance meeting at a wilderness camp forces a man to confront the guard who once brutalized him in a French prison.
- A Mass Initiation in Colfax
An unprecedented surge in membership sees the Woodmen of the World initiate thirty-eight new members in a single ceremony.
- A Close Encounter with a Barnyard Kicker
A White Bluffs man learns the hard way why it is safer to stand at a horse's head than behind its heels.
- The 'Boom Town' Bust of Chin Kiang
A cautionary tale of real estate speculation from the pages of 1889 Seattle.
- A Deadly Campfire Dispute
A traveler is brutally murdered after refusing to share his fire with a group of transients, highlighting the volatility of the frontier trail.
- The Feast of Lots: Seattle's Jewish Community Celebrates Purim with an Auction of Sacred Letters
At the Hinckley block, the Orthodox congregation dedicated a new Torah scroll and auctioned off its letters to fund education.