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130 stories matching hungri
- The Only Door Open to Olympia's Hungry
On Christmas Eve 1891, the Tribune reminded readers that St. Peter's Hospital was the city's only refuge for hungry men—and asked for donations of food and clothing.
- The Municipal Rock Pile: Kennewick's Hard-Nosed Welfare Policy
Facing a winter spike in transient homelessness, the Police Chief mandates manual labor as the price of a meal.
- An Act of Desperation in Tacoma
A hungry and unemployed longshoreman smashes a store window to get arrested for a warm bed and food.
- The Price of a 'Square Meal' for a Piano Tuner
After recovering from a drinking binge in Oroville, a hungry traveler found himself penniless—and learned the hard way that business owners in 1882 took a dim view of unpaid bills.
- The Great Oyster Heist of 1876
Two hungry gentlemen vanish into thin air, leaving their tab and their fried oysters to a couple of unsuspecting strangers.
- The Ballad of the Hungry Dancers: How Seattle’s Laborers Turned a Formal Dance into a Food Fight
When the Sailors’ Union hosted its first annual ball at Turner’s Hall, the orchestra played waltzes with captions like 'I am Hungry' and 'We Eat.' The result was a legendary night of dancing, dining, and civic pride that defined Seattle’s working-class culture.
- The Hungry Season in Richland
As berry pickers flood the valley, residents struggle to balance their charity with the reality of petty theft.
- A Veteran’s Long Walk Home
A hungry and penniless soldier, having lost his horse in the Olympics, finds his fellow veterans unwilling to help him reach his home in Klickitat County to cast his vote.
- The Desperate Plea of a Hungry Man
A homeless worker chooses jail over starvation after failing to find employment in Seattle.
- The Desperate Choice of John Thomas
A hungry and freezing man purposefully steals trousers in broad daylight, hoping for an arrest and a winter meal in the county jail.
- The Bear Who Drank the Molasses: A Lumber Camp Disaster
A hungry black bear broke into a West Branch Lumber Company supply shed in Washington's Cascade Mountains, getting hopelessly stuck in a keg of molasses and becoming a spectacle for the workers.
- Labor Dispute Leads to Stand-off on City Dock
Striking railroad workers, unpaid and hungry, threaten their contractor after being stranded in Seattle.
- A Ballard Family's Desperate Winter: Five Children Crying for Bread
A sick father, a dying mother, and five hungry children in Salmon Bay Park. A stranger's dollar is all they have.
- The Industrial Army’s Great Trek East
As Coxey's 'Industrial Army' traverses Washington, cold, hungry men turn to rail-hopping and the kindness of strangers to reach their destination.
- The Justice Who Defied the Law of the Landlord
A local judge in Davenport declares the state's 'board-jumping' law unconstitutional, sparking a debate over the rights of the hungry versus the interests of hotels.
- Thanksgiving in a Time of Trouble
As Seattle grapples with the financial instability of 1893, local missions and churches organize a massive effort to ensure no one goes hungry.
- A Desperate Theft in Wallula
A hungry drifter is sentenced to ten months in the penitentiary after stealing from a Chinese household in Wallula.
- The Unseen Cost of Modern Progress
An editorial from 1890 reflects on the plight of the unemployed and the friction between the 'well-fed' and the hungry during Seattle’s rapid industrial expansion.
- A Cougar Attacks in the Salmon Hatchery
A hungry cougar terrorizes a local salmon hatchery, leading to a desperate defensive battle involving dogs and a rifle.
- The Hungry Brethren: Seattle’s Post-Election Feeding Frenzy
Fresh off a resounding election win, Seattle’s incoming Democratic administration is besieged by a desperate army of office-seekers, while power brokers maneuver to clear the path for the next gubernatorial bid.
- The Shadowy Land Rush on the Tide Flats
Speculators and land-hungry developers descend on Seattle’s tide flats amid rumors of a secret railroad terminal.
- The Original Queen Anne Land Rush
An 1889 promotional advertisement offers a rare look into how early developers sold the 'aristocratic' promise of Seattle’s steep topography to land-hungry investors.
- The Hungry Democrats of Adams County
A local lawyer files a mock legal complaint humorously detailing the political squabbling over patronage and power in late 19th-century Washington.
- Building a Future: The 1876 Fight for Seattle’s School Sites
As Seattle’s population swelled in the 1870s, city leaders scrambled to secure prime real estate for education amidst a booming, land-hungry frontier town.
- The Cold Night’s Lesson: A Dream of Seattle Charity
In an 1889 holiday-season allegory, a young girl is taken on a spectral tour of Seattle's elite charity ball, only to discover the cruel indifference hidden beneath the city’s performative philanthropy.