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5 stories matching farwel
- Explosion Levels Drug Store on Ninth and Stewart
A pharmacy was reduced to ashes in a late-night fire, leaving local residents trapped in the apartments above.
- A Sudden Tragedy at the Homestead
A quiet farming life in Seattle ends in a moment of accidental violence when a young man meets an untimely end.
- The Promised Land at the Confluence
A high-stakes real estate pitch from 1889 promises investors a fortune as Pasco positions itself as the 'Gate City' of the Pacific Northwest.
- The Missing Penknife and the Body in Lake Washington
Coroner Horton ruled Michael D. Warren drowned himself at Madrona Park, but the cuts on his body and his vanished penknife kept the case uneasy.
- The Man Who Said He Spoke for the Czar
A smooth-talking stranger blew into Tacoma claiming to be the Russian government's agent in a Siberian railway steamship scheme — then turned out to be tangled up in the intrigue surrounding the state capitol commission.