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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1892 | 2 |
2 stories matching minutest
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- The Tragedy at Port Angeles
A government signal officer takes his own life on the morning his divorce case was scheduled to be heard.
- The Trial of the Board of Public Works
Mayor J.T. Ronald investigates accusations of malfeasance against city official George H. Heilbron, sparking a heated legal debate over the boundaries of municipal power.
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- The Forty-Minute Commute: A Plan to Link Seattle and Tacoma
Promoters announce an ambitious electric interurban rail project designed to connect the two cities in under an hour and transform the Puyallup Valley.
- Fifteen Minutes to Confess: The Morphine Trial of Port Townsend's Captain De Lion
A former mayor, Chilean consul and dry-dock promoter worth half a million dollars sits in superior court while his emaciated wife describes a year of morphine, delusion and a pocket watch set on the table between them.
- A Widow's Hour of Calamity in Renton
A singular sequence of tragedy strikes a Renton resident as house fire, drowning, and injury converge in sixty minutes.
- A Record-Breaking Excursion to the Capital
A crowded steamer makes a record run from Seattle to Olympia, straining the capital's housing capacity.
- The Most Progressive Session in Years
Washington's legislature scores a victory for labor with new laws on workmen's compensation, an eight-hour day for women, and the initiative and referendum.
- Acquitted in Five Minutes: The Girl Accused of Poisoning a Child
A packed Seattle courtroom erupts when Hildegard Rundberg is cleared of murdering little Richard Parker with 'Death to Rats' rat poison — the jury needing barely five minutes to set her free.
- The Price of the Eight-Hour Day
A Seattle merchant faces threats and a physical assault for defying a boycott and keeping his shop open to protect his clerks from sixteen-hour shifts.
- The Nation on the Brink: Rail Workers Push for Eight-Hour Day
As contract negotiations fail, two million workers threaten a total shutdown of the nation's rail system, prompting intervention from President Wilson.