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  1. The Sylvania Baldness Epidemic

    When a small-town boredom led to a mandatory, clipper-enforced hairstyle for every man in sight.

    Aug 18, 1889The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSnohomish, Snohomish CountyStrange But True

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  1. The Persistent Peddler of Front Street

    A persistent brush salesman tries to make a sale in 1876 Seattle, leading to an amusing exchange about baldness and local vanity.

    Oct 28, 1876The Daily IntelligencerFirst Avenue, Seattle

  2. A Barber’s Last Walk: No Work, No Way Home, and a Family Left Behind

    D. D. Vail left his Clallam County home looking for work. When he found none, he told his wife he would walk back—then took laudanum, hoping a $2,000 insurance policy would do more for his family than he could.

    Dec 18, 1893The Seattle Post-IntelligencerDungeness

  3. The Guilland House Advertises 'No Chinamen'

    A local hotel uses xenophobic hiring practices as a primary marketing hook to attract guests.

    Apr 25, 1889The Yakima HeraldYakima

  4. A Nameless End in the Horse Heaven Hills

    A stranger is found in a deserted sheep-camp shack, leaving behind no clues, no name, and no family to claim him.

    Dec 23, 1915The Kennewick Courier-ReporterHorse Heaven Hills, Kennewick

  5. Kennewick Celebrates its First 'Wormless' Corn Crop

    Local farmers are puzzled and pleased as the 1915 sweet corn crop arrives remarkably free of worm damage.

    Aug 12, 1915The Kennewick Courier-ReporterKennewick

  6. The Unkindest Cut

    A young boy's poignant question about inclusion and dignity sheds light on the treatment of people with disabilities in our community.

    Jul 19, 1894Aberdeen HeraldAberdeen

  7. The Price of a 'Cheap' Haircut

    Everett union barbers expose an unlicensed 'lady barber' working in a non-union shop.

    Apr 1, 1910The Labor JournalEverett

  8. A Child's Hip Set Without a Knife, the First Time West of the Rockies

    Surgeons from across the state crowd a Seattle operating room to watch a Baltimore doctor straighten a two-year-old's dislocated hip by hand.

    Oct 15, 1903The Evening StatesmanSeattle

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