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101 stories matching egg
- The Mystery of the Egg Within an Egg
A Richland woman discovers a natural curiosity in her poultry flock: an egg that contained another perfectly formed egg inside.
- The Great Egg Heist: A Drunken Chase Ends in Laughter on Pike Street
When James Quinn grabbed a case of eggs near First Avenue, Officer Cameron gave chase with drawn revolver—only for the 'thief' to surrender with a request for a cigarette.
- When Eggs Became Legal Tender: How the Palouse Survived the Panic of 1893
After the rains wrecked the 1893 wheat crop and merchants slammed shut the credit system, Palouse farmers discovered that the hen — and then the hog — could save them.
- The Great Grasshopper Panic: Why Washington Farmers Are Bracing for a Locust Apocalypse
Professor Riley predicts an unprecedented crop of grasshoppers across the Northwest and beyond, urging immediate preparation as eggs hatch in offices from Minnesota to Missouri.
- The Warden Stole His Son’s Fiancée—Then Got Fired Over Eggs
A federal prison appointment at McNeil’s Island unearths a family romance gone wrong and an expense account full of phantom eggs.
- An Invasive Pest Stalking Seattle's Shade Trees
Millions of eggs have been discovered on poplar and maple trees, threatening to decimate the city’s urban canopy.
- Kennewick Farmers Rally Against Spokane Market Prices
Local producers reject low offers from Spokane firms in favor of cooperative selling to maintain fair prices for eggs and butter.
- The Battle of the Incubator
A Seattle storefront puts the new technology of mechanical egg hatching to the test against the old ways of the barnyard.
- The Last Laugh on the Tariff: A Farmer’s Satirical Roast of McKinley
In a December 1890 edition of the Aberdeen Herald, a poem titled 'Better Than a Gold Mine' mocks President-elect William McKinley’s protectionist policies with biting wit.
- The Home Market Fight: Farmers Say Seattle Merchants Look Past Their Own Fields
A Port Angeles farmer’s letter to the Post-Intelligencer argues that Seattle merchants undercut local growers by buying from California, Oregon, and Chinese gardeners—and warns that the city’s food economy is bleeding money out of Washington.
- The Death of the Egg Law
A peculiar piece of legislation from 1875 mandating the sale of eggs by weight is finally repealed after years of being a 'dead letter'.
- The War Egg of Monroe
An ambitious local hen lays an egg that causes a stir and is interpreted as a wartime omen.
- A Missing Man, a Dead Wife, and a Sewing Machine Full of Money
Joseph Von Lingenau vanished after his wife died in childbirth. His friends fear murder; his neighbors remember a man coming apart.
- The Mobbing of the Moralizers
When four prominent temperance leaders and a local businessman tried to close down a suspected illegal saloon, they were met on the street and pelted with rotten eggs.
- Washington's New Laws Impact Daily Life
From egg labeling requirements to new school flag mandates, a collection of recently enacted state laws goes into effect, changing local regulations.
- The Policeman and the Neighbor's Chickens
A Seattle patrolman faced bizarre, whimsical charges of luring neighbors' hens onto his property to 'tax' their egg production.
- The Great Egg Exodus: Why One Seattle Boarding House Keeper is Trading City Squalor for Fidalgo Island Farming
In a move that defies the city's booming real estate speculation, Mrs. Johnson abandons her Commercial Street boarding house to launch a poultry empire on Fidalgo Island, proving that sometimes the best investment is a flock of chickens.
- The Seattle Supply Chain in 1889
A glimpse into the bustling maritime and rail logistics that connected a growing Seattle to regional hop growers and eastern markets during the city's reconstruction.
- Spokane Was Ready to Rotten-Egg Jim Hill
The Great Northern's freight rates left Spokane merchants bitter enough to organize, sue, and threaten the railroad baron with produce.
- Student Riot at Pullman Agricultural College
A group of Pullman citizens and regents condemn students who pelted visiting officials with eggs and mud while defending their outgoing president.
- The Palouse Pivot: How a Wheat Crash Forced Innovation
Facing a collapse in grain prices and a disastrously wet spring, farmers in Rosalia are abandoning monoculture for butter, eggs, and poultry to survive.
- A Walla Walla Pastor Defends the Prison's Sunday 'Boxing Bouts'
Rector W. Law writes to defend Warden Coblenz and the penitentiary's Sunday programs, insisting the glove contests that scandalized critics were gentler than a schoolyard game.
- The Bird Eviction at the National Bank
When swallows built their nests in the eaves of the Yakima National Bank, the city’s firemen were called in to wash the feathered families away.
- The Great Egg Duel of Vancouver
An offended soldier challenged a local man to a duel, but the combatants opted for a slightly less lethal choice of weapons.
- The Counterfeit Salmon Bait Incident
Two teenagers on Mercer Island find themselves in federal court after attempting to trade a counterfeit dollar for salmon eggs.