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5 stories matching lehman
- The Feathered Truce: How Seattle High School Girls Promised to Save Birds
In a rare moment of progressive activism in 1900, students at Livingston Avenue High School pledged to stop decorating their hats with the plumage of songbirds, responding to a plea from a local ornithology advocate.
- Tacoma Mourns Five Residents Lost on the Steamship Clallam
Tacoma reels from the loss of five residents in a deadly steamboat sinking as questions of seaworthiness arise.
- City Officials Cover for Strikebreaking Police
A secret reversal of policy allows the Fire and Police Commission to hide the identities of special officers hired by the Sumner Iron Works.
- A Change of Heart at the Altar
After a high-profile abandonment at a wedding in Seattle, a man tracks down his bride-to-be in Tacoma to finally go through with the ceremony.
- The Telephone Franchise Fight: A Speculator's Bid Rejected
Aldermen refused S. H. Piles a phone franchise because he wouldn't name his backers or put up a bond — and the competitor they did trust never built a line.
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- Rockefeller Interest Moves on Tacoma Waterfront
Massive dredging and warehouse plans filed for East Tacoma suggest the oil mogul is expanding his railroad and shipping empire.
- Bookkeeper Accused of Embezzlement and Threatening Life
T. P. Peterson of the Pacific Manufacturing Company alleges his bookkeeper not only embezzled funds but returned at night to alter ledger pages and threaten the owner.
- The Bank President and the Federal Judge
When the federal government began investigating his failing bank, a Tacoma business owner launched a public crusade against the judge presiding over the case.
- Narrow Escape at the Ballard Mill
A machinist miraculously survives a terrifying entanglement with a revolving shaft at the Seattle Lumber Company mill.
- The Agony of the Morphine Fiend
A defendant on trial for theft suffers from withdrawal in a Seattle courtroom.
- A Denver Capitalist Wants to Foreclose - and Blames the Money Question
C. W. E. Griffith came to Seattle for a superior-court fight over the ground beneath the National Bank building at South Second and Yesler, then explained why liquidation beats denial.
- The Bankruptcy Sale That Defined a Boomtown
As Seattle transitioned from a frontier outpost to a growing city, the closure of merchant Simon Brownstone's stock offered residents a rare, high-stakes opportunity for 'genuine bargains' amid the rough-and-tumble of 1884 commerce.
- The Bankers’ Bailout for City Debt
Seattle’s financial elite push for state intervention to retroactively legalize city debt incurred in excess of the constitutional limit.