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- The Milk-Drinking Controversy
A late 19th-century public health debate in Seattle challenges traditional wisdom on how, and how often, to feed the city's infants.
- The Sermon Interrupted
A fed-up Seattle preacher pauses his Sunday service to address a young congregant who tried to liven up the room with a well-aimed projectile.
- He Chose the Saw
Caught in the feed rolls of a Seattle mill, O. Lepper saw only one way out — and fed his own arm into the blade.
- The Neighborhood Vigilante Cat of Howard Avenue
An aggressive, property-owning tomcat is terrorizing the chicken coops of Seattle, prompting fed-up neighbors to organize a vigilante committee.
- The Midnight Concertina Menace
A fed-up Seattle editor threatens to take a shot at an unwanted suitor serenading a neighbor with an off-key concertina.
- The Neighborhood Nuisance: One Seattle Woman’s Battle with a 'Notoriously Bad Character'
An fed-up Seattle resident contemplates legal action to curb a neighbor's constant, disruptive presence in a battle that echoes today’s urban tensions.
- The Water Works Rebellion
A fed-up citizen vents his fury over the city's crumbling infrastructure and inept utility management.
- The Bottomless Pit of Rainier Street
A fed-up resident petitions the city to fix a dangerous, muddy depression that has become a local hazard.
- The Front Street Bottleneck
A classic tale of early Seattle infrastructure, where a proposed bridge at Seneca Street was deemed 'a fifth wheel to a wagon' by a fed-up local editor.
- The Muck in Our Taps: Lake Union Water Woes
Seattle residents in 1885 are already fed up with their water quality, echoing long-standing frustrations with civic infrastructure.
- The Automatic Suitor-Smacker
A fed-up father builds a booby-trapped gate to drive away his daughters' persistent suitors, turning a domestic headache into a mechanical triumph.
- The Chain Gang Strike: When Seattle’s Jailers Fed Rebels Bread and Water
Twelve roughs on the city's Commercial Street cleanup crew walked off the job, leaving six loyal workers to finish the job. The police response? Lock them in the darkest cells until their sentences expire.
- The Teenaged Inventors of North Seattle
Two brothers, aged 13 and 15, harness the power of electricity to drive boats, light homes, and saw wood along the Seattle waterfront.
- The Daily Parade of Moral Rottenness
A fed-up Seattle resident petitions City Hall to end the brazen practice of parading sex workers through the city's main streets by carriage and brass band.
- Unemployed Workers Displaced from Portland to Seattle
Sixty-four longshoremen arrive on the City of Topeka seeking work after being pushed out of Portland to reduce their local unemployed rolls.
- The Feds Crack Down on Land Fraud
A new circular from the General Land Office warns settlers that 'speculation' is illegal and will be met with criminal prosecution.
- The Industrial Army's Women's Relief Corps
Working women gather at Third and Cherry to provide aid to the destitute during the economic collapse of 1894.
- The Midnight Screecher: A Hotel Guest's Plea for Quiet
A fed-up boarder at a leading Seattle hotel demands justice—and a good night’s sleep—after being serenaded for nearly two hours by a crying infant.
- The Dungeon Behind the Standard Theater: Inside Seattle’s Terrifying Jail
A reporter’s inspection of Marshal Hamilton’s holding cells reveals prisoners sleeping on straw in a damp basement, fed by a restaurant manager who claims their diet is 'wholesome' and identical to his paying customers'.
- Stranded in Seattle by Fake Alaska Jobs
Two hundred men were swindled by a fake construction company, leaving them stranded without pay or prospects.
- The Houseboat Protest on Lake Union
A Seattle wife, fed up with her husband’s refusal to provide for their home, took matters into her own hands by staging a dramatic, stationary protest on the water.
- Thanksgiving in a Time of Trouble
As Seattle grapples with the financial instability of 1893, local missions and churches organize a massive effort to ensure no one goes hungry.
- The Operator Was Sleeping: A Seattle Telephone Scandal
In 1885, Seattle residents were so fed up with poor service and sleeping operators at the local telephone exchange that the newspaper demanded a total administrative overhaul.
- Labor Day and the Myth of Calamity
An editorial critique of the People's Party 'calamity' campaign during the 1892 Labor Day celebrations.
- The Stray That Found a Home Amid the Earthquake
When the great tremor rattled Seattle, a terrified stray pup fled for its life, only to find an unexpected new beginning in the city’s chaos.