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8 stories matching gentler
- Billy Sunday Leaves Spokane with a $10,000 Thank Offering
After six weeks of revival meetings, the evangelist said a gentler goodbye to 9,000 people—and left behind 5,666 professed converts.
- The Father Who Stopped a Play to Steal His Daughter
A wealthy Indianapolis patriarch tracks his romantic daughter to Seattle in 1876, only to find she has eloped with a lawyer and vanished into the West.
- A Walla Walla Pastor Defends the Prison's Sunday 'Boxing Bouts'
Rector W. Law writes to defend Warden Coblenz and the penitentiary's Sunday programs, insisting the glove contests that scandalized critics were gentler than a schoolyard game.
- The Struggle for Access in Seattle's Night Schools
When immigrant students sought an education in 1892, they faced exclusionary sentiment from school officials who labeled them 'untidy' and 'dishwashers.'
- The Bird Eviction at the National Bank
When swallows built their nests in the eaves of the Yakima National Bank, the city’s firemen were called in to wash the feathered families away.
- The Rose Thief of James Street
A Seattle gardener threatens to deploy a bulldog—or forty—after midnight raids carry off her prize roses, including the star-crossed Baron and Baroness.
- Seattle Moves to Put a Woman on the Police Force
The city council finance committee backed $175 a month for a woman police officer who would advise young women, investigate cases, and enter saloons and hotels.
- The Rapid Rise of Stage Star Blanche Walsh
A profile of actress Blanche Walsh, who went from a convent school in Manhattan to the leading role in 'Aristocracy' in just three years.
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- Vigilantism in Wiser
A deputy sheriff takes three men into custody for the targeting of Chinese laborers.
- The Unlikely Enforcer of a Party Game
A jealous husband at a frontier social insists his young wife receives equal attention—or else he will settle the matter with his fists.
- A Heroic Rescue in Kent
A young boy was saved from being crushed by a heavy engine flywheel when a local woman lifted the massive weight off his chest.