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49 stories matching pork
- Why the Working Man Stopped Eating Pork
A Portland market expert explains how wartime economics and local infrastructure projects transformed the regional meat market.
- The Patriotic Duty of the Pig
With the nation facing a severe meat shortage during the Great War, local agricultural officials pushed Benton County farmers to increase hog production, framing the effort as a vital sacrifice for soldiers.
- The Midnight Pork-Thieves of Belltown
A wave of petty food thefts from residential pantries has Seattle neighbors on edge, prompting warnings about the 'nocturnal nippers' prowling the city's outskirts.
- The Price-Fixing Meat Trust
Seattle's wholesale meat dealers move in lockstep to drive up prices on beef, pork, and mutton.
- The Fight Against the Federal 'Pork Barrel'
Progressive candidate M. A. Peacock slams Congressman LaFollette’s vote on reclamation funding, warning it invites corruption into the Northwest's irrigation projects.
- The Blacksmith’s Inflation Correction
A local farmer brags about his record-breaking pork sales, only to find the village blacksmith has adjusted his own prices accordingly.
- The Smuggler's Hold in Port Townsend
A US Customs inspection reveals a secret cargo of sugar and pork, risking vessel forfeiture and perjury charges.
- The Great County Road Grift
A skeptical resident argues that the proposed county road bond is a pork-barrel scheme that ignores the actual needs of the region's infrastructure.
- The Daily Provisions of a Sawmill Town
A look inside the mercantile life of 19th-century Snohomish, where the local market supplied everything from salted pork to imported tobacco to the booming timber workforce.
- A Day of Fraternizing on the Seattle Waterfront
When the G.A.R. veterans from Tacoma steamed into Seattle, the city turned out for a day of cannon fire, pork, and beans.
- The Price of Meat and the Cost of Labor
An 1889 market report reveals how a massive influx of laborers into Seattle was driving up the local meat market and straining supply chains.
- The Price of Survival in 1871 Seattle
A rare glimpse into the grocery and labor economy of the Washington Territory through the lens of a local market report.
- The Boomtown Hype of 1888
A real estate advertisement masquerading as news paints a picture of a city on the precipice of industrial greatness, promising that Seattle will soon become the 'Queen City of the Pacific.'
- The Valley's New Prize Pig
A local farmer bets on data-driven agriculture to master the hog market.
- They Burned Letters to the Dead on Ayer's Hill
Olympia's Chinese community gathered at a hillside cemetery in 1891 to honor eight departed countrymen with roast pork, red candles, wine and paper messages sent into the next world.
- The March of the 'Industrial Army'
Impoverished marchers, known as Coxeyites, are forced to continue their trek to Spokane on foot after local resistance and railway crackdowns.
- Three Bad Years of Hops, and a Trainload of Sheep Pointing the Way Out
Yakima County's hop growers have lost money three seasons running. The remedy, this farm editor argues, is to stop shipping raw hay out of the valley and start feeding it to cattle, hogs and sheep here — as forty carloads bound for Montana just proved.
- The Sunset Years at Orting
A visit to the state's veteran home reveals a self-sustaining community of Civil War heroes, romantics, and chicken farmers.
- The Legend of Dan Pullen
A profile of a pioneer 'bull puncher' and pilot in the Quillayute Valley, whose reputation for fearlessness and run-ins with wolf packs defined a generation of settlers.
- The Wheat Trap: Is Colfax Over-reliant on One Crop?
Local boosters worry that low wheat prices are driving farmers to the wall and suggest a shift toward mixed agriculture.
- The Great Hog Debate: Local Farmers vs. The Packing Trust
A reader fires back at critics of local livestock brokers, exposing the tension between small-scale Benton County hog farmers and the massive meat-packing monopolies.
- The Quartermaster’s Arithmetic: Scrip, Pork, and Profiteering in Washington Territory
A detailed audit of Quartermaster General W. W. Miller’s books exposed inflated prices, unexplained payments, and scrip issued for vouchers the commissioners had already disallowed.
- The Silent Advocate for Labor
A deaf mute worker seeks a union shop, shaming non-union men with his commitment to organized labor.
- The Price of Survival in 1880s Snohomish
A look at the commodities and labor costs that defined life in the frontier settlement of Snohomish City.
- The Price of Survival in Frontier Snohomish
A look at the 1880s cost of living, from the price of butter and bacon to the wages of the average blacksmith.
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- Hog Cholera Breaks Out in Snohomish County, and the Swine Industry Is Warned It Faces Annihilation
Fifty head already dead in a single herd; the paper demands the state act before the disease gets a permanent foothold on the coast.
- The Pig That Pays the Bills: How Swine Became Puget Sound’s Secret Wealth
In 1876, while Seattle looked to timber and fish for its future, a local article argued that raising hogs on wheat stubble was the most reliable path to prosperity.
- The High Price of Bacon and the Low Price of Hogs
A local pig farmer fires back at a packing industry executive, alleging that market manipulation is crushing small-scale producers.
- A Whole Ox on a 30-Foot Trench: The Butchers' Free Feed for Ten Thousand
Six beeves, sixteen sheep, one ox and 45 boiled hams — roasted overnight over open coals at Madison Street Park and handed out free on pasteboard plates, with a greased pig, a greased pole and dancing until daybreak.
- The High Price of Bacon
A local packing manager pushes back against rumors that Seattle’s market is driving up the cost of smoked meats.
- The Great Pig Entrapment of 1886
A pig's quest for kitchen scraps leads to a neighborhood-wide ordeal in downtown Seattle, involving the Fire Department and a very persistent squeal.
- Hog Cholera Outbreak in Snohomish County Sparks Call for State Action
A Pullman farmer warns that hog cholera has appeared in Snohomish County and urges the legislature to fund measures to contain the disease before it devastates Washington's livestock industry.