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243 stories matching household
- The City Health Board Closed Two Schools. The School Board Asked Who Gave It the Power.
When scarlet fever fears shut Rainier and South schools, Seattle's school board dug in—not against quarantine, but against what its lawyers called an 'arbitrary' order that skipped the City Council.
- Who Should Judge? Washington’s New Jury Law Under Fire
A Seattle paper defends a legislative overhaul that ended the professional juror and required jurors to be householders, as critics charged it handed the courtroom to property owners.
- The Day the Slash Hills Burned
A devastating fire sweeps through the rural settlement, consuming homes, crops, and winter stores, leaving families to pick through the ashes.
- The Case of the Missing Jury
A landmark Washington Territory court ruling challenges the legal status of women as jurors, debating whether 'civil disability' laws were ever intended to grant women the right to serve.
- The Vanishing Husband and the Ticket to Honolulu
A Seattle wife says her husband's disappearance was a plot to lure her across the Pacific — and out of divorce court.
- The First Grand Jury with Women Jurors
A landmark challenge to women's right to serve on a jury in Washington Territory sets the stage for the April District Court session.
- A Wall of Smoke and Flame Across Puget Sound
Forest fires from Hood Canal to the Nooksack Valley left dozens of families homeless in 1894, while smoke turned steamboat travel blind and daily life in Seattle into a gray haze.
- The Bride of Sixteen and Her Husband of Fifty-Eight
A teenage bride petitions for divorce, citing a forced marriage, cruelty, and the abandonment of a child.
- The Fight for Women’s Right to Serve on Juries
Prominent attorneys challenge the presence of female jurors in Washington territory, igniting a constitutional battle.
- The Mattress They Took From the Children
A teamster's hospital stay turned a $136 loan into a chattel-mortgage seizure—and a lawsuit over the mattress his children slept on.
- The Prosecutor vs. the All-Male Jury
King County Prosecuting Attorney John R. Bradshaw demands the inclusion of women on jury lists, citing Washington Territory’s progressive suffrage laws.
- The Grocer's Wife, the Forged Letters, and the Poisoned Glass
A Seattle woman says a trusted neighbor engineered her husband's disappearance, shipped her to Honolulu, and slowly drugged her — then she found the receipts.
- The Tragedy of the Crippen Household
A witness recounts the chilling final days of an infant following an alleged poisoning, highlighting a web of domestic desperation and control.
- Clara Colby Urges Seattle to Support Woman Suffrage
A visiting suffrage advocate inspires a local crowd, framing the political franchise as a tool for household and civic management.
- The Ghostly Burglar of Main and 12th
A Seattle household tried everything to stop a persistent intruder—from chair barricades to tin-pan alarms—but the culprit bypassed every obstacle, leaving the family baffled.
- The Tragic End of the Johnson Household
After her husband took his own life in a Tacoma jail, a destitute widow chose to end her own life while dressed in her finest clothes, clutching his photograph.
- The Tides Returned His Wife's Missing Luggage
A crate of household goods meant for a new arrival in Seattle was lost overboard at Fort Canby, only to wash up on a local beach—addressed directly to the owner.
- The Third and Last Time: A Yesler Avenue Marriage Comes Apart in Public
A grocery clerk's wife, reported to have cleared out with half the household goods, tells a reporter the split was mutual — and that her husband handed her $1.10 as a parting gift after threatening her and slapping their little boy.
- The Silver-Haired Widow of the Palouse
A charming con artist charmed her way into the best homes of Colfax, only to be undone by a stolen set of hotel silver.
- The 'Sot Guilty' Scandal: How a Legal Loophole Freed a Murderer in Washington Territory
A detailed account of the chaotic grand jury proceedings in Port Townsend that resulted in the dismissal of an indictment against a man accused of killing his wife, exposing deep flaws in territorial law.
- The 1885 Fight to Protect the Workingman’s Tools and Bedding
A proposed territorial law sought to expand property exemptions from debt, shielding everything from a mechanic's tools to a family's bedding from creditors.
- Tragedy on Lake Washington
A young boy drowns while ferrying household goods across the lake.
- A Woman’s Plea for Autonomy in 1892
After decades of marriage, Margaret Brown files for divorce, seeking to secure her household goods and land against a husband she says has abandoned and abused her.
- The Strange Case of the Seized Horse
A Port Townsend magistrate attempts to settle a private debt by seizing a horse that didn't belong to the debtor, sparking a procedural standoff.
- Tragedy at the Stoecke Home
A peaceful household is shattered when a violent dispute ends in a fatal shooting.
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- Clergyman Declares 'The Flat and Rooming House is a Curse'
Dr. M.A. Matthews criticizes modern housing and argues that a woman's sphere is strictly within the domestic home.
- An Abandoned Household: A Public Denunciation in 1876
A rare glimpse into the harsh realities of Victorian domestic life in pioneer Seattle, where a husband took to the local press to publicly cut ties with his wife.
- Domestic Life at the Soldiers' Home
An official clarifies the conditions and work of an elderly veteran's wife, dismissing rumors of scandal at the facility.