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5 stories matching hoff
- The Retraction of Mrs. Hoff
A minister's wife recants sensational allegations of abuse and battery, leaving a community wondering what truth lies behind a public marriage scandal.
- Two Shots, a Cold River, and a Flask of Rat Poison
Frederick Angle fired twice at his wife, jumped in the river, and then drank Rough on Rats with a friend who did not survive it. The stomach pump arrived, in the paper's words, 'unfortunately' too soon.
- Refugees Fleeing the Russian Empire Reach Tacoma
Two Jewish merchants arrive in Tacoma after a thousand-mile sledge journey to escape military persecution in Vladivostok.
- The council met in secret to dig itself out of the hole it dug
A closed-door caucus of Olympia's aldermen wrestles with the bond debt their own street work created — then adjourns for drinks, with the press locked out.
- Sixty Deputies, a Special Train, and the Hunt for an Escaped Prisoner
King County officers sweep the woods near Black River Junction for a jailbreaker named Blanck, borrow bloodhounds that don't answer, and get word that the bunko man Holmes has been spotted near Snohomish.