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2 stories matching factotum

Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:facto, factor, factori, fact, facten, faction

  1. The City Clerk’s Surprise Banquet

    When Seattle's City Clerk Forrest tendered his resignation to the 'hard-headed' Common Council, they responded not with cold bureaucracy, but with a secret banquet and a cane with a musical head.

    Mar 3, 1889The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

  2. The Bankrupt Streetcar Company Ordered to Keep a Mansion Lit

    A Seattle court rules that a receiver must honor a close corporation's strange side deal to power G. E. M. Pratt's home.

    Jan 11, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerGrant Street, Seattle, King CountyFollow the Money · Strange But True

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