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- The Anti-Saloon League Plots Its Hottest Campaign
Bert P. Doty of the Anti-Saloon League of Washington lays out a three-part legislative push — county option, shipping restrictions, and the power to shut down breweries — and predicts the fight of 1910 will be the hottest in state history.
- Temperance and Tax Reform Collide at the Ballot Box
Voters in Prescott and Milton prepare for bitter municipal elections where the primary battleground is the legality of the saloon.
- The Wild Primaries of Whitman County
Local republicans staged a high-stakes, chaotic series of caucuses to select delegates for the county convention, with some contests decided by a literal flip of a coin.
- Labor Federation Rejects Move to Lift Boycott
A heated floor fight breaks out at the State Federation of Labor convention over a continuing boycott against an exposition.
- The Fevered Eve of the 1892 Election
Thousands crowd into Seattle’s armory for a final show of political might as Republicans and Democrats stage competing rallies on the eve of the presidential vote.
- A Secret Order Comes for the Schoolteachers
In Shelton, the nativist A.P.A. is accused of purging old-line teachers—and an Equal Rights League organizes to fight back in the grove and on the platform.
- The Stinking Gutters of 1876
While Seattle promoters bragged of a salubrious climate, a local newspaper editorial exposed the reality of deadly, stagnant cesspools lining the streets.
- The Fire That Killed a Hotel
A disastrous downtown blaze consumed the Star Theater, inadvertently scuttling a major quarter-million-dollar property deal.
- Lawyers vs. Insurance Men: A Charity Ballgame and a Mock-Biblical Declaration of War
Seattle's bar association answers the 'tribe of Insurance Men' on the diamond at Madison Street Park, with the gate money going to the Bureau of Associated Charities.
- The Engineer’s Ash-Box Ghost: A Tale of New Year’s Eve Peril
In a column dated October 1870, the Seattle Daily Intelligencer reprints a harrowing tale from an old engineer about surviving a wreck by hiding under his locomotive's ash pan during a blizzard.