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| Year | Stories |
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| 1903 | 2 |
2 stories matching seil
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- Clerks Win Shorter Workdays in Walla Walla
After organizing and negotiating with major retailers, the local clerks' association successfully secures earlier closing hours.
- The Great Saengerfest Rush: A City Swells for the German Festival
As Walla Walla prepares to host the annual Saengerfest, local residents are scrambling to find temporary housing in a market that is suddenly tight and expensive.
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- A Diamond-Studded Celebration for the Selah Ditch
Foreman Dan McDonald is honored with a costly gift as the ambitious irrigation project reaches the summit, opening vast new tracts for agriculture.
- The Man Who Sold Olympia's Eastside Like Hot Cakes
W. E. Sebree platted a tract on the Eastside, cleared nearly $40,000, toured Alaska and Europe — and came home to a town he hardly recognized.
- The Desert Blooms: Bringing Irrigation to the Selah Valley
A ambitious engineering effort to bring water to 50,000 acres of arid volcanic ash soil promises to transform the North Yakima region into a premier agricultural hub.
- An 1874 Public Shaming of a Missing Wife
A husband publishes a newspaper notice to strip his spouse of financial agency after she leaves their home.
- Unemployed Rail Worker Attempts Suicide After Years of Hardship
A former American Railway Union member, struggling to find work since the great strike, attempts to take his own life near the Denny clay works.
- A Deadly Labor Dispute Over Wages
A trap-line worker is killed in his cabin by his stepson following a quarrel over unpaid labor.
- The Desperate Act of a Waitress
A young worker's suicide attempt at the Seattle block leaves questions and a mystery about the men in her room.
- The Perils of a Dandy in Snohomish
A South End man discovers that his wife's penchant for artistic interior decoration on his favorite pair of trousers has left him with more than just a fashion statement.