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4 stories matching foretel
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- The Palouse Professor Who Helped Rediscover Heredity
Before Mendel's laws were famous, an agriculturist at the Washington State Experiment Station stood alongside three European scientists as a co-discoverer of them — and proved the principle with velvet-chaffed wheat.
- The Canal That Could Save the West: How a New Waterway Would End Seattle’s Shipping Nightmare
As the Panama Canal project gains momentum, local experts calculate that Pacific Northwest farmers are losing millions annually due to the prohibitive costs of shipping grain around Cape Horn.
- The Great Northern's Rate War and the Seattle Boom
A fierce transcontinental rate war brings economic turbulence but potential windfall for Seattle wholesalers.
- The First Bakers of Grays Harbor
The Reinboth brothers recall their arrival in Aberdeen when the town was in its 'primitive garb' and how they became the harbor's first commercial bakers.
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- The Cashier Who Fled to Canada
A defaulting cashier, retrieved from British Columbia to face seventeen counts of embezzlement, finally enters the city prison.
- The Midnight Track-Layers
A hardware store owner battles a railroad company that allegedly used stealth to install tracks in front of his home and business.
- The Battle Over Public Tidelands
A recurring civic headache resurfaces as the City Council weighs conflicting claims on the city's valuable waterfront property.
- The Midnight Alarm at Pioneer Place
A construction mishap at the Yesler block causes a spectacular electrical failure and a city-wide false alarm.
- The Cable Car Line Passes to New Owners
The West Street and North End Electric Railway is sold to the Wilous Brothers, who plan immediate modernization.
- The Bank Panic and the Fifty Million Dollar Backstop
A telegram from the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad promises federal intervention to stabilize agricultural banking in the Northwest.
- The Unpaid Bills of the James Street Cable Line
A legal dispute over the James Street cable railway ends in a victory for the company, leaving material suppliers with no way to recover their losses.
- The Revolver at Front and Cherry
A violent property dispute between a downtown merchant and a local mechanic erupts into a courtroom drama.