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49 stories matching stunt
- Humane Society Intervenes in Balloon Stunts
A local organization moves to stop the dangerous practice of forcing animals into high-altitude balloon stunts.
- The Carnival Committee’s Riverfront Dream Faces Pushback
A committee proposes a riverfront carnival featuring water stunts and a baseball diamond, but locals worry the site is too far from town and too expensive.
- The Fatal Leap at Snoqualmie Falls
A young aeronaut attempts a dangerous parachute stunt in the spray of the falls, ignoring warnings from the crowd.
- The Brutal Price of Circus Fame
A young acrobat is removed from his performers' care after enduring systemic abuse in the name of show business.
- Carnival Performer Critically Injured
A teenage girl performing a 'loop-the-loop' stunt in Tacoma suffered catastrophic injuries due to alleged equipment negligence.
- How a Saloonkeeper's Wife Was Used to Strip Washington Women of the Vote
A call for an Equal Suffrage League meeting in Olympia prompts a bitter retelling of how a Spokane election stunt and a pliant territorial supreme court dissolved the woman suffrage Washington women had held since 1883.
- The Deadly Cost of a Daredevil's Stunt
A young man dies after a disastrous parachute exhibition at Snoqualmie Falls, leaving a grieving father to handle the tragic aftermath.
- The Don Quixote of Yakima
A local insurance agent's attempt to discredit the Priest Rapids Valley land project is dismissed by the Spokesman as a publicity stunt.
- Washington State's 1910 Political Shake-up
A wave of progressive 'Insurgent' Republicans swept the primaries in 1910, routing the party establishment and shaking the confidence of federal power brokers.
- Exploitation Behind the Carnival Lights
A teenage girl is paralyzed after a dangerous carnival stunt, with her employers allegedly refusing to pay her for her performances.
- The Perilous Descent of Professor Parker
A daredevil aeronaut nearly meets his end in a tangle of city wires and building cornices during a botched parachute stunt over downtown Seattle.
- The Chamber of Commerce That Committed Suicide
A political operative's attempt to sabotage Seattle’s growth leads to the total dissolution of the Port Townsend Chamber of Commerce.
- The Streetcar Decoy Scam
When the local transit company tried to goose ridership by planting actors on the streetcars, Everett's working class saw right through the performance.
- The Child Who Built Everett’s Prosperity
A haunting, fictionalized account of the daily drudgery faced by child laborers in the early 20th century.
- Democrats Rally at Germania Hall
Enthusiastic convention nominates George P. Wright for mayor amidst slick floors and political bluster.
- The Disappearing Lake
Residents are baffled as the waters of Surprise Lake suddenly recede, leaving property owners high and dry.
- The Traveling Salesman Who Out-Wrestled a Footpad
When an armed robber tried to hold up a local salesman late at night, he found himself in a Greco-Roman wrestling match instead of an easy mugging.
- The Great Flag Heist at Whitman College
In a daring midnight operation, twelve freshmen scaled the Memorial Building to plant their class banner on the spire.
- A Grand Dedication at Codding Hall
The entire valley converged on White Bluffs to christen the town’s first modern amusement venue with a night of dancing and patriotic fervor.
- The Perilous Climb of St. Peter's Lantern
A daredevil’s afternoon of ‘roof climbing’ in 1876 Seattle turns into a life-or-death struggle when a simple stunt leaves him dangling a hundred feet above the pavement.
- The $12,000 Gamble: Seattle’s Plan to Woo the East with a Car Full of Dirt and Fruit
In 1889, local booster George Storrs proposed a radical marketing stunt: load a railroad car with Puget Sound’s minerals and produce, tour the Eastern U.S. for six months, and pay for it by charging every resident $0.10.
- The Summer the Smoke Saved the Harvest
With rainfall a third of normal and crops burning in the fields, Seattle's paper made the case that the season's suffocating pall of forest-fire smoke had been the region's salvation.
- A Christmas on the Ice King: The Climb That Saw Rainier Smoking
In 1894, Major Ingraham led six men, seven homing pigeons, and a camera onto Mount Rainier’s glaciers. They came back with frostbite, a story of steam and smoke rising from the crater—and one pigeon missing.
- The Benefit Smoker for Striking Switchmen
Everett workers filled Fraternal Hall for a night of wrestling and boxing to support switchmen during their long-running strike.
- Waitresses Enforce Wage Justice
When a local Greek restaurant failed to pay a waitress her wages, her union sisters decided to skip the courts and handle the matter personally.
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- The Death-Defying Leap at Madrona Park
A daredevil aerialist and a monkey perform a high-altitude parachute jump over Lake Washington, drawing a massive, cheering crowd.
- A Chaotic Runaway Team on Commercial Street
A frightened lumber team sparks a chain-reaction collision, leaving one man nearly killed and his buggy destroyed.
- The Unlucky Stuntman of Richland
A local rancher’s persistent attempts to perform high-speed automobile somersaults leave both him and his Ford in need of repair.
- The Royal Society of Good Fellows Throws a Party
Athletic contests, fireworks, and a topical song about 'Ta-ra-boom-de-ay' mark a lively celebration in the mining town of Gilman.
- The Prank Gone Wrong
A festive church fair collection turns into a masked highway robbery—or does it?
- A Dramatic Arrest and a 'Whisky Fit' at the Police Station
A suspect arrested for jumping a boarding house bill and passing bogus checks collapses in his wife's arms while in police custody.
- Show Business Solidarity for a Local Acrobat
When an aerialist and her husband faced medical catastrophe, the community rallied for a benefit show at the park.
- Tragic Fall at the Pomeroy Stock Fair
A novice assistant was dragged into the sky by a tethered balloon, falling fifty feet to the earth in front of a crowd.