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- Seattle Slams the 'Ladies' Entrance' on Saloons
After a 2,500-name petition, the city council orders saloons to keep one street entrance and bars the screened side doors and signs that drew women in.
- Ballard's Saloon War: A Dry Sunday and a Hornet's Nest
A petition to shutter Ballard's saloons on the Sabbath, an ordinance to strip them of blinds and screens, and defiant barkeeps threatening to resist — the young city's first big temperance fight comes to a head in the council rooms.
- Cracksmen Drilled the Safe and Vanished Toward the Water
Professional burglars breached Bremerton's post office near the navy yard, hauled a 125-pound strongbox over a wire screen, and likely escaped by boat.
- Burglars Clean Out the Kennewick Clothing Store
Thieves forced the back door of the Kennewick Clothing store with a crowbar and made off with suits, overcoats and shoes; a patrolman may have passed the store while they were still inside.
- A Dead Explorer's Lantern Slides: Alaska Comes to the Seattle Theater
J. O. Hestwood recounts the Yukon route, the Grand Canyon rapids and the cost of the northern gold fields, illustrating the journey of the late explorer Wilson with views projected on the screen.
- Seattle Health Officers Screen Trains and Steamers for Smallpox
As smallpox cases surge in Victoria, B.C., Seattle and neighboring ports enact aggressive, sometimes illegal, quarantines to stop the infection from crossing the border.
- The Franklin Mine Fire: Thirty-Seven Dead, Not a Scratch on Them
A fire in breast sixty-two traps miners between flame and return airway; bodies are laid in rows as Seattle sends a special train.
- 1893 Snowstorm Leaves City Short of Coal and Water
Deep snow blocks the rails and the rivers, leaving Seattle shivering and hungry as coal supplies vanish.
- A 14-Year-Old Vanishes Between School and the Streetcar
Katie Arper disappeared after classes in Seattle, leaving behind a Tacoma orphanage, a devoted matron, and a young man named Hopkins.
- Is Tacoma’s Water Supply Making People Sick?
A reporter’s investigation reveals that farm runoff and sewage are flowing directly into the city's filtration system.
- A House of Prayer for All the Nations
In 1892, Seattle's Congregation Ohaveth Sholom dedicated the first Jewish synagogue in Washington, filling the new sanctuary at Seventh and Seneca with Jews and Gentiles and with sermons that insisted the building must be more than stone and gold.
- The Almshouse Graft Scandal
A grand jury report ignores blatant evidence of corruption in the construction of the county almshouse, sparking outrage among taxpayers.
- The Seattle Coal Cooperative of 1876
A century and a half ago, Seattle workers formed a mutual benefit mining company to secure their own fuel and profits.
- The Great Political Tickling: How Daniel Bugley Outwitted Seattle’s Beriah Brown
A fiery editorial in the *Snohomish Sun* exposes a political alliance between two rival editors, accusing them of using religious fervor as a cover for partisan maneuvering.
- The White Ribboners’ Crusade in Cosmopolis
A local chapter of the W.C.T.U. mounts an impassioned campaign against the ‘despot’ of alcohol, labeling licensed saloons a failed experiment.
- The Stocking-Foot Burglar of Fourth Street
A bold burglar stalks a home on Fourth Street, invading the upstairs in his stocking feet while the family is inside.
- An Ambush in the White River Valley
A local store owner and his daughter narrowly escape a violent attack by three assailants.
- The Shadow at the Window: A Frontier Murder Trial
A Swedish laborer stands accused of a cold-blooded killing at Cedar Mountain, as prosecutors weave a circumstantial web of muddy boot prints and stolen rifles.
- The Smallpox Panic Reaches Seattle
Health officials in Seattle rigorously screen travelers from British Columbia to prevent a cross-border outbreak.
- The Great 'Ten-Cent' Grandstand Skirmish
Seattle baseball management deploys canvas walls to block fans watching games for free from outside Madison Street Park.
- Everett Labor Council Mobilizes for McNamara Defense
Local labor leaders coordinate benefit events and organize support for the McNamara brothers amid national union unrest.
- A Coal Elevator Gives Way at the Foot of Madison Street
Two coal cars and three workers fall twenty feet when a corroded hydraulic cylinder bursts at the Seattle Coal & Iron Company bunkers; all escape without a scratch.
- The $80,000 Cranberry Bog Behind the Ilwaco Beach
A state commissioner tours Pacific County's cranberry marsh — 1,600 acres, 7,280 bushels shipped to San Francisco, 200 pickers at fifty cents a bushel, and a company openly hoping to replace its Chinese crew with white labor.
- A Dry Petition, a Waterworks Deal and a Stolen Wheelbarrow
Four hundred Ballard residents want the saloons shut from Saturday midnight to Monday morning. A councilman says the whole thing is spite over the city's purchase of the water plant — and the council buys the water plant anyway.
- Suspended by the Wrists: A Perilous Fall in Downtown Seattle
A local painter narrowly avoided tragedy after a ladder slipped and left him dangling from meat hooks.
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- The Silent Screen Goes Dark in Richland
A local entrepreneur pulls the plug on the town's only movie theater after the community fails to support the expense.
- The Tragedy at the Arcade Saloon
A well-known Seattle boarding house keeper ends his life, leaving behind a young daughter and a legacy of property, marking a grim moment in the city's growth.
- The Art of the 'Living Picture'
Behind the scenes at the Calhoun Opera Company, where stagecraft and quick-change artistry bring classical paintings to life.
- The Curtain Falls on the Olympic
A Tacoma theater is left in the dark after the manager fails to pay a utility bill, marking the end of a disastrous business experiment.
- A Father’s Hardship and the Telegram That Changed Everything
An overworked, weary business man contemplates his supposed failures until a birthday message from his daughter provides a new perspective on success.
- The Solar Plexus Surprise
A local storekeeper's attempt to act tough with a schoolgirl ends in a swift, painful lesson.
- The Classroom of 1885: Eyesight, Health, and the 'Teacher's Burden'
Before the era of standardized testing, Seattle educators gathered to debate the physical design of the classroom, the 'proper' seating of pupils, and the creeping dangers of nearsightedness.
- A Saloon Brawl and the Logic of 'Reddy' Long
After wrecking a lunch counter and brandishing brass knuckles, a man offers the court a grim critique of Seattle's drinking culture.