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4 stories matching springbrook
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- The Starving Men of Springbrook
A deputy sheriff returns from a strike site near Springbrook to report that workers have been left without food or wages for days, contradicting company claims of a riotous mill burning.
- The Smooth Swindler of Springbrook
A serial con artist attempts to swindle hotel keepers and produce merchants with worthless paper.
- A Claim to the Shingle Throne
A Ballard man challenges the history books, asserting he invented the sawed shingle in King County in 1874.
- The Ballot Box Was Too Full in Franklin
Populists brought witnesses to court to show that votes in Franklin precinct were pushed, shaken and crammed into an overflowing box—irregularity, they argued, even if not outright fraud.