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3 stories matching dragon

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  1. The Newport Hardware Man Who Went Through Johnstown — and Kept the River Mud to Prove It

    In his store window, E. E. Reid displays a gilded St. George torn from a clock and a rocking chair pulled from the 1889 Johnstown flood — silt still hardened in the crevices — and jokes that he is still selling hardware because the flood only went through him, not over him.

    May 14, 1908The Newport Miner (Newport, WA) 1899-CurrentNewport, Pend Oreille CountyDisasters · Gone Forever

  2. Miners March Thirty Miles for a Solidarity Strike

    A group of Newcastle miners trekked across the territory to convince Franklin workers to shut down the pits in a labor dispute.

    Feb 27, 1886Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerBlack Diamond, King CountyWork & Pay

  3. The Anti-Catholic Crusade That Filled a Seattle Hall

    In 1895, an overflow crowd packed a Masonic hall on Pike Street to hear the American Protective Association promise a nativist 'second grand army' against the Catholic Church.

    Jan 28, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyExclusion & Resistance

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