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- The Standard of Modern Living
A look at the social prestige of home technology in 1880s Snohomish.
- The Town With the Wrong Mail
A mix-up over naming rights between two Kitsap County towns leads to a mail delivery crisis.
- The Kidnaping of Sam
A witness speaks out against the detention and deportation of a Chinese laborer by a local official.
- The Political Rise of George Turner
Fresh from an international arbitration victory, Ex-Senator George Turner is being courted by Democrats for a gubernatorial run in Washington.
- The State College Funding Feud
A fiery public debate erupts in the Courier-Reporter over whether the State College (now WSU) favored prestige programs over the practical needs of Washington farmers.
- Prize-Winning Livestock at the Walla Walla Fair
Professor Elliott of Pullman College presides over the judging of fine cattle and stallions, highlighting the region's agricultural prestige.
- Waitsburg Farmers Bet on Thoroughbred Power
Prominent farmers have formed a new association to import a champion French Percheron stallion, signaling a major investment in regional agricultural prestige.
- The Rebirth of a Burned City
Following the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, the city pivots from disaster to rapid reconstruction, grappling with housing, labor, and the challenge of rebuilding a metropolis from ashes.
- The Passing of Bailey Gatzert
Seattle mourns the loss of a pioneering merchant and pillar of the early commercial establishment.
- A Cold Reception for a Community Booster
While Kennewick gained prestige from 'Strawberry Day,' local residents embarrassed the town by ignoring a guest speaker who traveled from Seattle to address them.
- The Great Sound City Feud of 1888
A Spokane visitor to Tacoma and Seattle observes the intense, pre-statehood rivalry between the two cities as they jockey for economic dominance in Washington Territory.
- The Fourth Annual Whitman County Fruit Fair
A look back at the 1890s agricultural exhibition in Colfax, where local growers competed for prestige and prizes.
- Tacoma’s Urgent Need for Railroad Competition
The city stands at a crossroads, needing to break the Northern Pacific’s monopoly to secure its future as a 'City of Destiny.'
- The College That Could Have Been: Seattle’s Bid to Steal Whitworth
As Tacoma and Seattle compete for the relocation of Whitworth College, local boosters scramble to offer land and cash, revealing a fierce battle for civic prestige in the early 1900s.
- The Canal That Would Give Seattle the Finest Harbor on the Pacific
An 1895 editorial urges Seattleites to back a half-million-dollar subsidy to fill the tide flats and dig a canal linking Puget Sound with Lake Washington.
- The Senatorial Tug-of-War Over the Puget Sound
In 1892, Washington’s first senators fought to prevent their state from losing its autonomy to Oregon’s political muscle in a dispute over customs districts.
- The 'Golden Eagle' Real Estate Boom of 1889
As Seattle prepared to rebuild from its Great Fire, developers used high-profile endorsements—and the promise of a streetcar line—to sell the prestige of the Renton Addition.
- The Great Carpetbagger Grievance
In 1888, Seattle residents fumed as the federal government ignored qualified locals to fill territorial offices with politically connected outsiders.
- Portland Moves to Steal Seattle's Alaska Trade
Twenty-five Oregon merchants meet to charter steamers to Juneau — and to cut Puget Sound out of the North's growing business.
- A Weather Station on the Roof of the Cascades
A scientist's proposal imagined a summit hut on Mount Rainier, heated by volcanic steam and measuring what might be the windiest place on earth.
- The Last-Minute Fight Over Olympia's First Real High School
On the very morning of the school-bond election, board member J. C. Rathbun fires back at the district clerk's eleventh-hour argument against building — insisting a proper high school would make Olympia the educational capital of Washington.
- Whatcom's Democrats Eat Their Own: 'Thieves, Fakirs and Impostors'
A county Democratic club meets to denounce its own officeholders — accusing a candidate of selling his nomination to the highest bidder and the party machine of swapping votes for cash — until a motion to adjourn ends the night in pandemonium.
- Seattle's Fight to Land the Army Post at Magnolia Bluff
In 1895, the Chamber of Commerce touted a federal garrison as a monthly windfall—if Tacoma did not steal it first.
- Seattle's 1895 Warning: Secure Cedar River Water Before Private Speculators Do
City Engineer R. H. Thomson says Seattle's overworked pumps cannot survive another summer and urges the city to buy the Cedar River watershed, dams and reservoir sites while it still can.