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14 stories matching dooley
- A Working Mother Answers the Charity That Called Her Unfit
After a jury refused to brand Mrs. Bennett a prostitute, her lawyer wrote to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to rebut the Associated Charities superintendent who had accused her in front of her children.
- Rescuing the City's 'Children of Larger Growth'
Superintendent E.T. Dooley proposes a Children's Aid Society to stop Seattle from churning out a criminal class.
- An Armed Mistake on the Road to Walla Walla
Two young boys herding cattle from Starbuck were held at gunpoint by deputies who suspected them of being rustlers.
- An Unusual Act of Honesty
A struggling immigrant who received public assistance returns every penny, plus a donation for others in need.
- The Scientific Charity Movement Comes to Seattle
A report on the new organizational efforts to manage poverty in Seattle, modeled on European systems of 'friendly visitors'.
- The Charity Investigator Who Unmasked a Double Life
A Seattle superintendent suspected fraud in a widow's plea for aid and uncovered a deception that revealed much more than empty cupboards.
- The Great Cattle Stampede on Wharf Street
Eight head of prize beef from Puget Sound ignored the slaughterhouse route and raided a grain store instead.
- Inside the 'Hell Hole': Life for the Unemployed in 1893
An anonymous laborer provides a harrowing account of the brutal conditions and daily struggle for survival in Seattle's winter saloons.
- The Birth of the Associated Charities
Seattle's civic leaders organize a modern 'clearing house' for relief to curb street beggary and provide professionalized aid.
- The Prize Fight Shuffle in Tacoma
After Collins forfeited his match, 'Spider' Kelly of San Francisco stepped in to face Morrissey in a high-stakes Tacoma bout.
- The Tragedy of a Ballard Shack
A destitute family in Ballard faces the loss of multiple children and a dying mother, revealing the harsh reality of poverty on the city's outskirts.
- The Northwest Cracker Factory
How two entrepreneurs brought the latest steam-powered manufacturing to the Seattle waterfront in 1885.
- A Missing Lawyer, a $350 Deed, and the North Olympia Land Scheme
With Attorney D. P. Ballard absent, Olympia lawyers are tracing suspicious transfers in a platted addition—land already sold to dozens of owners, now used as security for a $4,000 mortgage.
- Yakima Democrats Nominate Full Slate at 1892 County Convention
Party faithful gathered in North Yakima to pick candidates, adopt a platform, and vow to clean up state government.