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- A Clubhouse for Community: Filipino Seattleites Organize to Buy a Home Base
The University Filipino Club moves toward purchasing a lot and house, seeking a permanent space to solve 'serious problems' together—not to separate from the city but to meet it.
- The End of the Horse-Drawn Era?
As inventors race to perfect the motor carriage, the city of the future promises cleaner streets and the eventual extinction of the horse as a daily utility.
- Washington Creates a New Office for Farm Marketing
A new state law establishes a director of markets to bridge the gap between regional agricultural producers and far-flung consumer centers.
- Labor Groups Mobilize Against Japanese Workers in Mukilteo
Everett labor leaders join forces with local clubs to push for the exclusion of Japanese employees from the Crown Lumber Company plant.
- Aberdeen's Schools Face a Budgetary Cliff
With a funding shortfall and the economic pain of the 1894 railroad strike hitting local coffers, the newly formed school board struggles to keep doors open for more than six months.
- The Streetcar Strike Was Only the Beginning
After forcing the Stone-Webster corporation to yield, Everett’s organized labor sets its sights on public control of utilities.
- The Silent Runaway
A young wife vanishes from her home, leaving behind only the question of whether she was fleeing her husband's unreasonable demands or his silent pressure.
- A Man Held in Quarantine
Pierce County officials scramble to find a solution for a Korean man suffering from leprosy.
- The City’s 'Worthless' Vagabond Problem
A 1885 editorial call for the city to forcibly expel the unemployed, framed as a nuisance to the thriving Pacific Northwest economy.
- Stevens County's First Prohibition Convention Vows to 'Kill the Saloon' for Good
Reformers from Newport and across Stevens County met in Colville, organized a permanent Prohibition party, and asked commissioners to stop licensing saloons outside town limits.
- The Dilemma of the Stranded Immigrants
Twelve Chinese immigrants abandoned on a rock near Stewart Island highlight the ongoing border crisis.
- The War Effort Shifts to the Orchard
With food scarcity looming, state extension leaders urge Washington farmers to plant wheat between their fruit trees to combat the national shortage.
- The Transient Merchant Problem
A group of clothing peddlers skips town, leaving local brick-and-mortar merchants to foot the tax bill.
- Taming the Puyallup and Duwamish
Tacoma and Seattle delegates join forces to lobby the state and congress for flood control and navigation improvements.
- A Fifth Ward SOS: Water Pressure and Fire Safety
Councilman Christoffenson demands a formal investigation into the 'woefully inadequate' water pressure plaguing the Fifth Ward, pushing for a dedicated fire engine.
- Seattle’s Rotten Garbage Problem
A health official warns that the city's sewage scow is falling apart, proposing a permanent incinerator.
- The Town's Bachelor Problem
An editorial tongue-lashing for four local men who chose independent living over marriage.
- The Seattle Athletic Club Claims Madison Park
Local baseball clubs strike a deal for a new home field, with plans for tracks and modern amenities.
- Seattle's Hidden Leather Industry
A local company makes big moves in the hide and leather trade, aiming for national reach.
- The Schoolhouse Mutiny
When an empty Seattle schoolhouse became a playground for neighborhood boys, a mild prank turned into a local spectacle of adolescent mischief.
- Clergyman Declares 'The Flat and Rooming House is a Curse'
Dr. M.A. Matthews criticizes modern housing and argues that a woman's sphere is strictly within the domestic home.
- The Perils of 'Red Shirt' Advice in Mason County
A local farmer put his faith in newspaper advice regarding an aggressive bull, only to find that some solutions are more dangerous than the problem.
- A University of Washington Scholar Asks Why Filipino Workers Are Being Pushed Out
In 1928, as Congress weighed excluding Filipinos from the United States, a UW researcher set out to document the migration — and the labor resentments driving it — across Washington, Oregon and Alaska.
- The Great Rabbit Invasion of 1897
Farmers and settlers in the Palouse region faced a desperate agricultural crisis as a massive swarm of rabbits descended upon their fields.
- Tacoma Shippers Fear for the Shawmut
Global tensions from the Russo-Japanese War reach Tacoma as merchants worry about a local steamship being intercepted.