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32 stories matching lizzi
- The Bachelor's Rebuttal
A young suitor gets an earful from a skeptical woman who prefers independence to the reality of 1880s marriage.
- The Secret Benefactor of a Struggling Seattle Teacher
A modest schoolteacher discovers that her late aunt, a wealthy woman she hardly knew, had been paying her bills in secret long before the surprising terms of her will were revealed.
- The Scandal of a Seattle Boarding House
After sensational rumors of a cross-country elopement, two sisters speak out to clear their names of a scandalous 'love triangle' reported in the papers.
- The True Cost of a Game of Billiards
A Seattle man learns a hard lesson about domestic economy and the hypocrisy of his own spending habits after denying his family small requests.
- The Matrimonial Mess at Windsor Hotel
A court case involving a domestic disturbance and accusations of stone-throwing unravels a web of illegal marriages and divorces.
- A Family Pattern of Criminal Charges
After pleading guilty to horse theft, a local woman is sent to a reformatory while her mother faces time in the state penitentiary.
- Smallpox Outbreak Hits Alder Street
Two women are quarantined and moved to the city pest house as officials scramble to contain a sudden infection in a residential neighborhood.
- A Tacoma Marriage Ends in Murder and Suicide
Isaac H. Bratton shot his wife and then himself after weeks of suspicion, religious friction, and threats—a domestic tragedy that consumed a Tacoma household.
- A Precarious Request for Legal Safety
Unable to file for divorce due to residency requirements, a mother seeks a court injunction to protect herself and her children from her husband's alleged abuse.
- The Landlady, The Lodger, and the Revolver
A rooming house rental dispute on Third Street explodes into a brawl involving hair-pulling, biting, and a gun.
- The Case of the Fairhaven Silk Dress
A stolen dress from Fairhaven is recovered in Seattle after a swift investigation involving local police and a steamboat passenger.
- The Band Serenades a Surprise Wedding
A popular music teacher and the leader of the Aberdeen Cornet Band marry, only to be surprised by their own bandmates.
- The Fourth of July Ball at Black Diamond
A festive celebration in a coal mining camp captures the exuberant spirit of early industrial Washington.
- Washington State's 1910 Political Shake-up
A wave of progressive 'Insurgent' Republicans swept the primaries in 1910, routing the party establishment and shaking the confidence of federal power brokers.
- Indigenous Couples Legally Wed in Shelton
Four Indigenous couples at Skokomish hold a ceremony to secure legal recognition of their long-standing marriages.
- The Mystery of the Girl in Trousers
A stylish, cigarette-smoking visitor at the Windsor Hotel turns out to be a local mystery when Seattle police realize a woman is masquerading in men's clothing.
- A Mayor's Daughter, a Botched Kidnapping, and a Crushed Rib
In Tacoma, would-be abductors snatched the wrong 10-year-old girl, then dumped her bleeding in the street—hours before her father was injured in a city hall elevator accident.
- A Community Under Siege: The Whidbey Island Diphtheria Outbreak
A harrowing account of how a single family was devastated by diphtheria in Oak Harbor during the summer of 1887.
- The Fiddle or the Fortune
A young woman’s struggle for artistic independence against the suffocating expectations of Gilded Age Seattle.
- The Swing Chorus: How Seattle’s Elite Turned a Concert into a Tropical Fantasy
At Frye’s Opera House in 1903, the Harmony Club staged a bizarre and beautiful musical revue featuring twenty-six young women swinging on hammocks and teeter-totters, proving that Seattle society was ready for something new.
- The Crackdown on Seattle’s Red Light District
Chief Butterfield continues his campaign against 'houses of ill-fame,' arresting operators and patrons as the city forces illicit businesses to vanish from the streets.
- The Infant Glee Club of 1878
Before the city’s grand theaters were established, a neighborhood girl organized Seattle’s first children’s choir in her mother’s parlor.
- The Perilous Rescue at Pillar Point
A steamship crew's desperate battle against a violent storm and a jagged coastline ends in a daring rescue on the Puget Sound.
- Thanksgiving on the Edge of the Frontier
A pioneer family shares a festive dinner and stories of early territorial life near Green Lake.
- Summer Days on the Sound
A lively report from a 1878 community on the Puget Sound, celebrating mill work, new infrastructure, and the social joys of the frontier era.