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30 stories matching dearborn
- The Cleopatra of Tacoma and the 'Mock Marriage' Scandal
A prominent society man and insurance broker found himself at the center of a public scandal after a fake marriage to a theater 'box rustler' was exposed in Tacoma.
- The Chaos of Seattle’s Streets
A concerned citizen proposes a rationalized naming system for Seattle’s streets ahead of an expected influx of summer tourists.
- Teredo Worms Cut a Seattle Wharf Adrift
A shipworm-weakened pier at the foot of Dearborn Street collapsed into Elliott Bay, sending a warehouse down with a crash and leaving the wreckmaster to haul a floating dock back to shore.
- The Battle for Elliott Bay’s Tide Lands
A multi-year legal saga over land rights concludes as the government rejects a claim on Seattle's waterfront.
- Fire Scare at South Eighth and Dearborn
A fire in a small stand caused a panic among nearby residents, who mistook a white man’s warning for a police raid.
- The Blueprint to Bury Seattle’s Railroads and Sell the Tide Flats
The Dearborn interests pitch a grand scheme to replace ram’s-horn tracks with parallel underground lines, raise street grades, and turn the southern tide flats into a manufacturing and freight hub.
- Henry Ford's Hunt for History in Palouse
A classic 1892 horse-powered threshing machine, once a staple of local agriculture, has been purchased by agents for Henry Ford's private museum.
- The Laundry Woman's Stolen Underwear
A trio of burglars was rounded up after they were identified for stealing from a South Seattle laundry worker and local bachelor shacks.
- The Struggle for Dignity at the County Farm
King County breaks ground on a modern, fireproof hospital to replace a crowded, dangerous almshouse described as a 'tinder box'.
- The Isolation of a Refractory Patient
A county hospital patient is placed in solitary confinement in an outbuilding after her behavior renders her unfit for the general ward.
- A Boston Banker Tells Walla Walla to Hold Its Wheat
A capitalist touring the territory by rail — with $75,000 already sunk in Washington land — predicts high grain prices, a finished Northern Pacific, and scolds the town's 'sleepy' businessmen for taking their money elsewhere.
- The Mother, the Boarding House, and the Hostage Baby
A mother is forced to involve the police when a boarding-house keeper attempts to hold her four-year-old son as collateral for an unpaid debt.
- The Tragic Delusions of a Seattle Engineer
After his child died, a railroad worker spiraled into a breakdown that ended in a tragic death at the asylum, leaving his family in dire straits.
- Teenage Burglars Caught in the Act
Detectives for the Merchants' Police Patrol trap three boys and their fence in a late-night burglary scheme at a local paint warehouse.
- The Last Class at the Old U—and the Girls Win the Spade
In May 1895, the University of Washington’s Class of ’95 held its final class-day exercises in the original downtown building, with women delivering the spade orations for the first time.
- Valentine Scrip Sparks Protest Over Washington Waterfronts
Speculators and land-hungry companies are betting big on a loophole involving obscure 'Valentine scrip' to seize Seattle’s tideflats, setting the stage for a massive legal showdown.
- A Failed Seattle Bank’s Frozen Fortune
Receiver C. M. Sheafe told the court that the Washington Savings Bank’s notes and bonds might eventually pay, but its real estate was unsellable in the hard times of 1894.
- A Surprise Party in South Seattle
Neighbors and friends gathered for an evening of music and refreshments in South Seattle, a moment of local community building in 1889.
- The predatory business of 'confidential' loans
A Seattle reporter goes undercover to expose local money lenders charging exorbitant interest rates to the desperate.
- Seattle Begins Filling Its Tide Flats
Surveyors lay the base line and piledrivers start a brush-and-earth bulkhead along Railroad Avenue, turning watery flats into buildable ground.
- Seattle Starts Building Its Own Ground
Contractors drive the first piles in the tide flats, launching a massive fill project that will remake the city’s waterfront and industrial south end.
- Before the Railroads Cut Through Seattle, One Man Proposed a Saner Street Grid
A letter to the editor calls for wider avenues, a logical naming and numbering system, and railroad tracks that follow the platted streets—not slice across them at will.
- One Street, Eight Names: The Tide-Land Map That Broke Seattle's Addresses
When the tide-land appraisers published their new plat, they named the filled waterfront after the states and the big cities — ignoring every street already on the ground. City Engineer Thomson's renaming scheme collapsed on the spot.
- A Horse Theft Led Police to a Stolen Child
For two years Mary Eckelbery searched for the daughter taken from her. A Puyallup horse-theft arrest, a sheriff's hunch, and a little girl called 'Emma' finally brought Annie Florence Dawson home.
- They Would Rather Grow Than Beg: Seattle’s Unemployed Turned Vacant Lots Into Potato Patches
In the depression year of 1893, nearly 200 Seattle men—most with families—were given free seed, tools and borrowed city lots through the Pingree plan and the Co-operative Industrial Society.