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- Rent Pressures in the Red Light District
A street worker is arrested after struggling to meet the high rent demands of a boarding house landlord.
- Republican Party Bosses Control Convention Outcomes
Local political machine uses pre-arranged nominations to maintain grip on power, sidelining country delegates.
- Smallpox and Politics: The City Hall Power Struggle
A simmering dispute between the Seattle Board of Health and the City Council leaves a smallpox patient isolated and a doctor without a salary.
- The Seattle Postmaster's Inbox Woes
A satirical poetic complaint from 1885 captures the frustration of a growing city struggling with mail delivery, box rent, and the perceived indifference of the local postal bureaucracy.
- The 1895 Push to Split Seattle From King County
A Chamber of Commerce meeting with new state legislators turned into a drive to separate Seattle from King County—and to force the school board to live within its means.