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6 stories matching girdl
- Tragedy at Sea: The Loss of the T.W. Lake
Nine bodies have been recovered following the sinking of the steamer T. W. Lake in a deadly gale.
- The 'Little Hatchets' of Commercial Street
Vandals are destroying shade trees in downtown Seattle, prompting local residents to demand authorities intervene against the neighborhood boys.
- The 'Street Arabs' Terrorizing Pioneer Seattle
A wave of juvenile vandalism strikes Front Street, leaving local merchants and the South School House in ruins.
- The Cold Night’s Lesson: A Dream of Seattle Charity
In an 1889 holiday-season allegory, a young girl is taken on a spectral tour of Seattle's elite charity ball, only to discover the cruel indifference hidden beneath the city’s performative philanthropy.
- The Governor's Booster Sermon for Washington Territory
Gov. Newell told a Whatcom crowd that timber, coal, fisheries and harbors made the territory's future inevitable—and that the greatest city would rise at the entrance to the Straits.
- Spokane Prepares to Welcome the Northern Pacific’s Last-Spike Excursion
In September 1883, Spokane Falls planned arches, speeches and a day of civic pageantry to greet President Henry Villard and the railroad party opening the transcontinental line.