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8 stories matching cashmer
- A Fruit Co-op’s Creditors Step In as the Trains Stop Running
The Wenatchee Valley Fruit Exchange, with a warehouse in White Bluffs, was taken over by creditors after a car shortage and a Great Northern embargo stranded shipments.
- Fruit Growers Win Court Victory After Exchange Collapse
White Bluffs and Hanford farmers secure preferred status for 1922 apple proceeds following the insolvency of the Wenatchee Valley Fruit Exchange.
- The $100,000,000 Fruit Crop Looks for a Fair Price
Northwest growers draft a cooperative marketing contract, and White Bluffs-area orchardists are summoned to Hanford to hear the plan.
- The Struggle to Rename 'Horse Heaven'
Local farmers hope to rebrand their rugged 'Horse Heaven' hills as 'Benton Slope,' but history—and local geography—proves hard to change.
- Newport Saloons Lose the First Round in the Dry Fight
A Spokane judge upheld the town's local-option election, forcing saloon owners to amend their challenge—while the anti-saloon league plotted a dry Washington.
- The Night the City Forgot Lent: Seattle’s Elite Dance Until Dawn
While the rest of the city prepared for Ash Wednesday, Turner Hall hosted a 'select hop' that defied religious observance, featuring diamond-encrusted gowns and a feast that lasted until 3 a.m.
- The Department Store Revolution in Pioneer Square
Before the mall, there was the 'mercantile establishment'—a 19th-century retail behemoth that promised the modern consumer everything from tailor-made suits to beaded capes under a single Seattle roof.
- The Price of a Pioneer Wardrobe
A look at the retail landscape in 1886 Seattle, where department stores were the primary civic meeting grounds and symbols of progress.
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- The End of the Ledger: Coulee City Merchants Go 'Cash Only'
Local business owners announce a shift away from credit-based commerce to lower prices and eliminate accounting headaches.
- The Cashier Who Fled to Canada
A defaulting cashier, retrieved from British Columbia to face seventeen counts of embezzlement, finally enters the city prison.
- The Collapse of a Whatcom Banker
Cashier C. M. Atkins faces a laundry list of embezzlement charges following the insolvency of the First National Bank of Whatcom.
- Banker Charged in Fraud Scandal
The former cashier of the wrecked Merchants' National Bank is accused of selling worthless drafts to unsuspecting customers.
- Embezzlement Scandal Rocks Whatcom Bank
Col. C. M. Atkins, cashier of the suspended First National Bank, faces multiple charges of embezzlement after being arrested at his home.
- The Merchants’ Bank Fails to Save Itself
Stockholders fall short of the Comptroller’s demand, leaving Charles H. Baker to wind up the failed Seattle bank.
- The Clerk Who Stole His Boss’s Fortune to Gamble Away
Leander Miller returns from a political trip in Olympia to find his confidential clerk, J.H. Corcoran, has drained his accounts through gambling debts.
- The Cashier, the Milliner, and the Missing Payroll
A Seattle steamboat cashier leaves his post—and a significant sum of company money—to elope with a milliner, triggering a city-wide sensation.