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7 stories matching dwight
- Olympia’s New ‘Keeley Cure’ Promised to Break Drink and Opium Habits in Three Weeks
Dr. Watt opens a Keeley Institute in the Union block, touting a round-the-clock regimen of medicine, hypodermic injections and baths — and applications are already arriving from across Puget Sound.
- The Gold Hunter Who Vanished in Seattle
An electrical engineer accused of homicide in Honduras disappears after weeks in Seattle, leaving a dead companion and an unanswered expedition behind.
- The Burglar's Secret Den in the Seattle Woods
A group of young boys out playing stumble upon a hidden campsite in the woods, revealing a stash of stolen goods that solves a string of neighborhood crimes.
- Seattle's Cow Pasture Problem
A local resident argues that Seattle cannot be a beautiful city of lawns and shade trees while the streets remain nothing more than open grazing grounds for cattle and horses.
- The First Gold-Cure Club in Washington
At Olympia's Keeley Institute, former patients formed the state's first Bi-chloride of Gold Club—part mutual-aid society, part fundraising engine for poor alcoholics who could not afford the cure.
- The Night the Chickens Sang Backup: Spokane’s Poultry Show
Spokane’s annual poultry exhibition drew hundreds of birds, a towering silver trophy, and an orchestra the chickens refused to let finish alone.
- The Seattle Editor Who Worked Himself to Death in a Bathroom
George H. Heilbron, editor-in-chief of the Post-Intelligencer, was only 38 when apoplexy killed him at his Cherry Street home. His doctor blamed years of nervous exhaustion from overwork.