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10 stories matching fiddl
- The Fiddle That Haunted a Kitchen
Superstition takes hold in a Milford hotel kitchen when a violin begins to play on its own.
- The Wandering Minstrel of Puget Sound
A profile of an itinerant street performer and songwriter, known as 'Fiddler Williams,' who became a familiar, if beleaguered, fixture of late 19th-century Washington city life.
- The Child Who Danced for Pennies
A twelve-year-old runaway is arrested in a Seattle saloon while performing a wing dance to escape his father's abusive vaudeville routines.
- The River's Mystery
A young businesswoman visiting her family in Aberdeen vanishes while rowing alone on the Wishkah River, sparking a frantic and desperate search.
- The Fiddle or the Fortune
A young woman’s struggle for artistic independence against the suffocating expectations of Gilded Age Seattle.
- The Officer, the Wife, and the Bouquet: A Seattle Courtroom Melodrama
John Brown gets thirty days for disorderly conduct, but he blames a handsome policeman for stealing his wife—who arrives in court with flowers and a secret for the judge.
- The Kennewick Cyclone
A rowdy public horse sale turns into a high-stakes wrestling match between local men and a spirited mustang.
- Too Many Lawyers, One Accused Man
A convicted man’s defense became a fight among attorneys, a wealthy widow’s charity and an accusation aimed at Seattle’s police chief.
- Old Yank, the Sequim Inventor Who Rigged His Counter to Sting Thieves
A correspondent visits Professor Watkins of Sequim Prairie, an eccentric mechanic whose inventions ranged from a needle-spring burglar trap to a wooden mowing machine and a windmill made to grind the prairie's wheat.
- A Polish Rancher in Muddy Boots Sits Down at the Piano and Steals the Show
Two hundred people in fancy dress fill the Olympia Theater to raise $83.75 for a Sherman Valley schoolhouse — with the lieutenant governor on fiddle, the mayor managing, and the sage of the valley in blue overalls at the keyboard.