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119 stories matching preacher
- The Preacher Who Punched a Sinner: A Camp Meeting Brawl in Oakdale
In September 1876, a reverend at an Oakdale camp meeting lost his temper and physically assaulted a boisterous young man, leading to an arrest that highlights the volatile intersection of religion and frontier justice.
- The Minister’s Holy Kick
A traveling preacher pulls a fast one on a highwayman in this classic piece of frontier satire.
- The Kitchen War in Little Rock
A domestic squabble in a Seattle kitchen erupts into a violent, farcical showdown between a scorned husband, a smooth-talking preacher, and a woman who refuses to be anyone's possession.
- The Swindling 'Boy Preacher' of Discovery Bay
A young con artist charms his way into the confidence of local ranchers with promises of land purchases and a wealthy mother, only to vanish without paying a cent.
- The Art of the 'Back-Seat Sermon'
A Seattle preacher shares his cunning, slightly cynical strategy to force young couples in the back pews to stop courting and actually listen to the gospel.
- Separated at Three, Reunited at Sixty on a Centralia Train Platform
A famous Boston preacher changing trains in Centralia asks a stranger his name — and finds the brother his family had not heard from in more than fifty years.
- The Preacher and the Circassian Slave
A popular clergyman gets more than he bargained for during a trip to a local photography studio.
- The Doomsday Cult of South Union
While the rest of the country debated silver and trade, a group of Thurston County farmers were preparing for the final apocalypse.
- The Preacher Who Shot His Client: A Land Grab Gone Deadly
In a bizarre twist of frontier justice, Reverend G. W. Walker allegedly shot settler Herbert Wilson in the breast after a dispute over land titles, revealing a pattern of fraud that had already drawn legal complaints.
- The Preacher Who Turned Court Into a Prayer Meeting
A local street preacher, arrested for his public fervor, turns the tables on the magistrate by forcing a courtroom to its knees.
- The Neighbors Who Saved the Harvest
When an ill farmer and his preacher could not tend their fields, the community of Semiahmoo mobilized as one to save their livelihood.
- A Strike Argument at a Shingle Mill Ends with a Knife in a Man's Abdomen
Two mill hands fall to blows over the strike question; the ex-preacher parries a club and stabs the man his neighbors call crazy on the industrial question.
- The Preacher, the Deed, and the Burning House
A small-town minister's affair with a married parishioner ends in arson, a whitewash trial, and an effigy swinging from an electric light pole in the heart of Oakesdale.
- Street Preacher Faces Trial for Pioneer Square Sermon
A street orator's right to speak on public planking sparks a debate over whether the Salvation Army's influence creates a double standard for public space.
- The Street Corner Prophet's Scandalous Revelation
A Seattle street preacher who claimed a divine mandate to take a second wife is apprehended by authorities in Tacoma after fleeing his flock.
- The Great Baptism at the Waterfront
A visiting preacher draws hundreds to the Seattle tideflats for an intensive, hours-long baptismal marathon that captivated the city’s prominent citizens.
- The Mother in the Front Pew
A sermon on appearances and the judgment of the wealthy, as observed in a Seattle church.
- The Evangelists Come to Aberdeen
A pair of traveling preachers fill the Methodist church, blending fire-and-brimstone theology with the wit of a circus ringmaster.
- The Vanishing 'Boy Preacher'
A notorious young grifter keeps up appearances as a 'star boarder' in Newcastle before skipping town.
- The Unwelcome Embrace
A Cheney woman speaks out against a preacher who combined petty theft with unwanted advances.
- The Street Preacher's Final Sermon
A 'monomaniac' street preacher who habitually harassed passersby is apprehended by police and committed to the territorial asylum.
- Twenty-Seven Years Later, a Georgia Slaveholder Walked Into His Former Slaves' Seattle Office
Two men who had once been Col. Clinton C. Duncan's property built new lives in Seattle — one a preacher, one an employment agent. He came to call, and they didn't recognize him until they did.
- A Secret Order Comes for the Schoolteachers
In Shelton, the nativist A.P.A. is accused of purging old-line teachers—and an Equal Rights League organizes to fight back in the grove and on the platform.
- The Disappearance of the Traveling Minister
A Presbyterian preacher sets out from Seattle for the wilderness outposts of Acme and Nooksack and vanishes without a trace.
- A Preacher's Attack Becomes Free Publicity for Seattle's Potter-Bellew Run
A Portland minister accused the touring actors of scandalous church behavior; telegrams from Victoria said he had the wrong couple, and Seattle theatergoers got a four-night engagement to judge for themselves.
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- The Sermon Interrupted
A fed-up Seattle preacher pauses his Sunday service to address a young congregant who tried to liven up the room with a well-aimed projectile.
- The Banker, the Preacher and the Indictments in the Pews
When a Tacoma grand jury indicted officers of the failed Merchants National Bank, the Rev. Alfred Martin used a Friday sermon to remind his congregation that ancient curses were mild compared with modern indictments.
- The Pastor, the Saloon, and the Pulpit Campaign in Newport
Rev. F. R. Margetts calls Rev. William A. Wasson a hired saloon advocate and announces a Sunday rebuttal at the Congregational church ahead of Newport’s September 7, 1909 liquor-license election.
- The Street Preacher on Pioneer Square
A Seattle man, parading through the city with a Bible and an American flag, faces a jury trial to determine his sanity while his wife struggles to support their family.
- The Pulpit vs. The Press
Rev. Wallace Nutting fires back at local editors, defending the right of the clergy to speak out on political and moral matters.
- The Vagrant Preacher: An Elderly Man’s Desperate Plea for Dignity in Spokane
Paul Hoffman, a German Lutheran minister turned job-seeker, was arrested for vagrancy after collecting donations from churchgoers. In his cell, he wept as he recounted his fall from grace.
- The Preacher, the Presiding Elder, and the Typewritten Screed
An obscure minister accuses a Methodist leader of seduction and embezzlement, setting off a Seattle church scandal and a criminal-libel warrant.
- The Street Preacher of Tacoma Avenue
A laborer’s attempt to sermonize on Tacoma Avenue leads to a swift arrest and an insanity hearing.