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- The Great Sleeping Car Price Drop: Seattle Gets a Cheaper Ride from the East
Railroad executives confirm that first-class sleeping car fares from St. Paul to the Pacific Northwest will plummet from $13 to $10 starting April 10, signaling a broader trend of reduced travel costs for settlers and tourists alike.
- The Desperate Plea of a Drug-Addicted Transient
A man seeking a meal at the city health office reveals he has been consuming dangerous, sleep-inducing doses of chloral.
- Father Wades Through Fire to Save Five Children
A local fisherman braves a blazing home in Seattle to rescue his sleeping children as the kitchen collapses in flames.
- Caught Red-Handed: A Midnight Grocery Heist
A burglar's attempt to crack open a downtown Seattle grocery store was thwarted by an alert clerk sleeping just upstairs.
- Roused from Sleep: A Family Left Destitute by a Flue Fire Near Green Lake
A defective chimney destroys the home of a Scandinavian family north of Ravenna Park, leaving them nearly without possessions as neighbors take them in.
- Brutal Assault in Wa Chong's Building
A man preparing for sleep is robbed and slashed in a violent late-night attack.
- The Exhausting Wait: How Seattle's 1874 Election Paralyzed the City
After election clerks were locked in a hall for thirty hours to tally votes, local journalists decried the bureaucratic slog as a 'quarry slave' ordeal that turned even the most patient men into irritable, sleep-deprived ruins.
- The Sleeping Fireman and the Rat-Trap Defense
Two city firemen faced an investigation after one was caught sleeping on duty and the other admitted to abandoning his post to hunt rodents.
- Inside the 'Hell Hole': Life for the Unemployed in 1893
An anonymous laborer provides a harrowing account of the brutal conditions and daily struggle for survival in Seattle's winter saloons.
- The Man Who Stopped Getting Up for Food
John Turnrose was arrested for sleeping in a Seattle shack. In police court, he said he no longer cared what happened to him.
- The Cabin Feud in West Seattle
Two brothers living in a cramped cabin find themselves in a legal battle over their sleeping arrangements.
- The Fight for Breathable Air in Seattle's Tenements
City health officials launch an inspection campaign to enforce density limits in overcrowded boarding houses.
- The Second-Hand Sleep Economy
Before the age of big-box furniture, T.P. Freeman’s 'Variety Store' turned reclaimed bedding into a thriving trade in 1870s Seattle.
- Three Children Die in Seattle Fire as Father's Rescue Fails
A morning blaze destroyed John Simpson's Seattle home, killing three children asleep upstairs while Simpson and his wife escaped with their baby. Simpson was badly burned in several failed attempts to reach the children.
- A Thief Caught in the Act at a Waterfront Saloon
A loafer attempts to rob a sleeping worker, but is thwarted by an observant patron and a prompt police response.
- The Operator Was Sleeping: A Seattle Telephone Scandal
In 1885, Seattle residents were so fed up with poor service and sleeping operators at the local telephone exchange that the newspaper demanded a total administrative overhaul.
- Midnight Theft on Rose Street
A city worker narrowly avoids disaster when a burglar steals his savings while he sleeps.
- A Lonely End at the Villard House
John McDonald, a 67-year-old timber cruiser from Montana, dies of exhaustion in a local saloon after a week-long drinking bout.
- The Ghostly Burglar of the Columbia House
Boarders at a downtown Seattle hotel were baffled by a mysterious thief who appeared to move through locked doors while they slept—only to have the landlady turn the blame back on them.
- The Unpaid Laborers of Seattle
Eight Russian laborers track down their employer in Seattle to demand back wages after being forced to sleep outdoors at a remote work site.
- The Price of a Hold-up: Passenger Sues Northern Pacific
After a daring train robbery in a sparsely settled district, a passenger sues the railroad for failing to secure the train's sleeping cars.
- Midnight Fire Claims Lives of Two Children
An Elliott block blaze in the hollow leaves three families destitute and ends in tragedy for the Tanner boys.
- The Tragedy of the Salmon Bay Shipyard
A maritime accident in the newly developing industrial tideflats of late 1889 reveals the human cost of Seattle's rapid expansion.
- Tragic Drowning of a Teamster
A Seattle teamster's solitary night ends in the chilling waters beneath the Commercial Street bridge.
- The 'Skin Rangers' Take on the Centennial
In 1876, a local club offered a raucous, satirical history of the Pilgrims to counter the solemnity of America’s 100th anniversary.