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75 stories matching globe
- Search Ends for Missing Teen; 'Globe Hotel' Hanger-on Arrested
The disappearance of 16-year-old Norma Hoyt is solved after she is located in a Vancouver brothel with a man known in Tacoma's red-light district.
- Fire Trap Expansions at the Globe Hotel
Tacoma building inspectors are ignoring unauthorized, illegal additions to a notorious downtown lodging house.
- A Drunk Man, Two Women, and a $170 Lawsuit Against a Tacoma Saloon
F. E. Ellison says two women working at the Globe saloon-hotel rolled him while he was drunk. The proprietor says he is not responsible.
- The World-Traveling Catcher
Before major league stardom, Billy Earle brought baseball to the pyramids of Egypt and the streets of Rome.
- The Barber Who Ran for Mayor: A Dream of Detective Work
When an unsuccessful mayoral candidate applied for a municipal detective job in 1891, his bizarre, globe-trotting proposal sent the Ballard City Council into fits of laughter.
- The Globe-Trotter, the Elks, and the $5,000 Wager
A Boston telegram called Paul Jones a fake. Seattle's own reporting found a Harvard man circling the world on a wager — and turning a paper suit into a sellout lecture.
- Tragedy at the Tide Flats
A young worker perishes while seeking relief from the summer heat in Bellingham Bay.
- A Trans-Pacific Reunion
After decades apart, a father and daughter separated by the globe reconnect on a Seattle street.
- When Puget Sound Timber Built the World
In 1890, Seattle and Washington’s mills weren’t just fueling local growth—they were exporting millions of feet of fir to every corner of the globe.
- Steamer Regie Destroyed in Mystery Fire
A vessel formerly used for government coast surveying is lost to flames while beached for repairs on Lake Whatcom.
- Tragic Accidental Electrocution in Tacoma Home
A prominent local family mourns the loss of their teenage son following a freak electrical accident in his own bedroom.
- The $5,000 Wager That Sent a Man Around the World With Nothing
Paul Jones reaches Seattle with $300 left to earn, a paper suit on his back, and a Boston bet that has already carried him through Japan and the Suez Canal.
- The Wire Comes to Aberdeen
A town finally speaks to the outside world, instantly shortening the distance between the harbor and the rest of the globe.
- Rent Pressures in the Red Light District
A street worker is arrested after struggling to meet the high rent demands of a boarding house landlord.
- The Woman Who Bet $20,000 She Could Walk Around the World
Champion pedestrian Zoe Gayton stops in Seattle before a globe-circling wager—armed with walking shoes, two revolvers, and a cocker spaniel.
- The Price of Challenging the Red Light District
A laboring man fights for his stolen wages only to face a brutal assault by the enforcers of a powerful downtown syndicate.
- An Eastern Critique of Seattle’s ‘Young Men’s Party’
A skeptical observer from Brooklyn weighs in on the age-based political movements shaping Washington Territory.
- The Ghost of the Willow Lane
A decades-long obsession over a lost love and a stolen romance in the quiet corners of old Seattle.
- The Hidden Metal Powering the Electric Age
A rare, inaccessible metal from the Ural Mountains has become as valuable as gold, and it is the only thing keeping the world's incandescent light bulbs from shattering.
- When the Local Paper Cheers the Mob
A governor's push to prosecute the Colfax vigilantes draws a shocking defense from Whitman County newspapers—and a sharp rebuke from The Olympian.
- Expansion of the Red Light District
A notorious district on A Street is set for expansion as a developer secures permits for a new subterranean 'house of ill-fame'.
- The Fight for Tacoma’s Political Independence
Democratic candidates rally in the Fifth Ward against the 'one-man' rule and corporate influence in municipal governance.
- The Grand Jury Probes the 'Restricted District'
Tacoma investigators hunt for proof of who really profits from the city's red-light district properties.
- The City That Waited for a Comet
Halley's Comet was predicted to bring doom, but Everett's residents found the celestial visitor to be a massive letdown.
- The American Danger: A Turn-of-the-Century Manifesto
A jingoistic editorial from the Tacoma Times defining the nation's sense of self and global superiority in 1904.