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152 stories matching outfit
- The Riverside Hotel and Logging Outfit Up for Grabs
William Romines lists his Snohomish hotel and a complete logging setup for sale in a 1878 advertisement.
- Kennewick Equips for Chain-Gang Labor
The city council implements a new ordinance requiring prisoners to serve their sentences performing hard labor on the streets.
- A Fishing Scow Left High and Dry
A local fishing expedition turns into a salvage nightmare after a grounding in the Gulf of Georgia.
- The Washington Product Train
An ambitious promotional scheme aims to take a custom-outfitted railroad car across the nation to boost local investment.
- The Pioneer’s Last Gold Rush
A 59-year-old bachelor leaves his farm near Pendleton to gamble on the Klondike, heading out from Colfax with a massive pack train.
- The High Cost of the Great Seattle Rebuild
A six-week-old restaurant is auctioned off for parts, revealing the volatility of life in post-fire Seattle.
- A Peach Grower Comes Home Thanking His Lucky Stars
After a winter among California's smudge pots, Kennewick orchardist D. E. Stull decides a frozen navel orange crop is a worse fate than anything Horse Heaven can throw at him.
- Vashon Farmers Petition for County Spraying Equipment
Island growers urge the County Commissioners to purchase a communal power-sprayer to combat orchard blight.
- The Dance-Hall Dandy: A Thief Undone by His Own Vanity
A railroad laborer steals a valise of clothes, then wears his finest stolen outfit to a dance hall—where a sharp-eyed policeman spots him.
- The Loophole Draining Washington's Industrial Insurance
Employers are gaming the system to dodge accident premiums, leaving responsible businesses to foot the bill.
- One Coal-Oil Dealer Is Holding Olympia's New Electric Railway Hostage for $10,000
The streetcar line is contracted, the rails are shipped and the crews are ready — but George Marvin Savage's outfit sits squarely in the middle of Main Street, and he will not budge for less than ten thousand dollars.
- The Unruly Everett Jail Riot
A rowdy group of local troublemakers battered their way into the Everett jail to liberate an associate, leaving the facility in shambles.
- The Price of a Phony Partnership
A Seattle man alleges he was swindled into buying a worthless photo studio by a pair of partners who claimed to have phantom land holdings.
- Dredging the Pend Oreille for Steamboats
A Seattle contractor will put a centrifugal-pump dredge below Boundary Island, aiming for a 70-foot channel six feet deep so river boats can stop creeping over the bars.
- The Logger’s Sunday Best
A small-town transformation: How one local logger swapped his camp clothes for city attire to blend in with the townspeople.
- A Plunge Toward the Waterfront
A teamster survives a terrifying fifty-foot tumble after his wagon loses footing on the steep grades of 1889 Seattle.
- Police Raid High-End Queen Anne Apartment
Prohibition-era sting nets stash of liquor, gambling gear, and opium in a fashionable Seattle neighborhood.
- The Three-Foot Loophole: A Clever Workaround for Tacoma's Gambling Ban
Tacoma's Olympic Club skirts police edicts by raising the floor three feet to technically evade gambling restrictions.
- A Prospector's Plea for Support
A former Yukon miner writes to the editor asking for help to fund a prospecting expedition.
- Bellingham Bay's Monster Starfish
A local fisherman hauls in a record-breaking sea creature from the pilings of an old wharf.
- The Launching of the City of Aberdeen
A new passenger steamer hits the waters of Grays Harbor, promising speed and luxury to locals.
- The Mysterious Abandoned Schooner
A local man discovers a waterlogged schooner adrift in the Straits of Georgia with only a dead dog aboard.
- The Case for Decentralizing the Timber Industry
An 1870s editorial argues that Snohomish County loggers are being exploited by giant corporations and proposes a localized milling model to ensure economic independence.
- Drifters on the Columbia
Three adventurers arrive in Kennewick via a 300-mile journey on a homemade scow from Kettle Falls.
- The Blind Maestro and his Pullman Kid Band
A touching story of a blind conductor leading a boys' band in Pullman, destined for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
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- The Case for Overalls and Mud
A mother asks for fashion advice for her nine-year-old, prompting a spirited editorial defense of childhood liberty and dirt-stained play.