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233 stories matching subscript
- The Spokane Newspaper Price War Heats Up
A cutthroat competition between rival morning and evening papers leads to plummeting subscription rates and new publishing schedules.
- The Railroad Comes Collecting: Olympia's Subsidy Fight Heads to Court
Northern Pacific's own attorney admits the line into Olympia cost the company $40,000 more than it took in — and announces he will sue every citizen who signed the bond anyway.
- Seattle’s Half-Million-Dollar Canal Fund Was $16,000 Short
A subscription drive for the South Canal neared its half-million-dollar goal in 1896, with bricklayers pledging $1,000 apiece and boosters pressing tardy donors to pay up.
- The Canal Fund Passes $413,000, With a Priest’s $100 and a Boost From the Schwabachers
Seattle’s campaign to subsidize the Lake Washington canal turned to churches, banks, and family firms as the subscription total climbed.
- The Denny Hotel Deal: How Seattle’s Elite Bought Their Way Into History
A canvas for stock subscriptions begins today to fund the city's first grand hotel. Dr. Minor and Mr. Collins lead the charge, urging property owners to invest in a project that promises to accommodate next summer's travel boom.
- The Canal Fund Creeps Toward Its Goal
Seattle’s Lake Washington waterway subsidy inches upward as a Northern Pacific Railroad lawyer promises Eastern capital will do its part.
- Seattleites Declare War on a Magazine Over Mount Rainier
Prominent citizens refuse to pay subscriptions to a publication that renamed Mount Rainier as 'Mount Tacoma'.
- Seattle Buys Its Future, One Subscription at a Time
Boosters raised nearly $340,000 in thirteen days to subsidize the Lake Washington waterway and tide-land improvements, as the company filed contracts covering Seattle harbor.
- Seattle Tries to Buy Its Own Canal
Boosters fan out to raise a $300,000 subsidy for the Lake Washington canal and tide-flat fill, promising work to Seattle men and asking every resident to become a committee of one.
- A Struggling Congregation's Plea for a Permanent Home
In 1889, a small band of Swedish laborers turned to the public to save their Gethsemane church from being sold by its financiers.
- A Community Gift for a Sick Neighbor
When J. J. Heatherington fell ill with paralysis, his White Bluffs neighbors organized a subscription to buy him a cow, offering a lifeline of support in a time of crisis.
- The $300,000 Push to Dig Seattle's Canal
Businessmen and volunteers canvass the city for subscriptions to the Lake Washington Waterway, promising the money will be raised by Saturday.
- Seattle's Pingree Plan: Free Garden Plots for the Unemployed
A city-backed scheme opens an office at 14 Railroad Avenue to hand out land so jobless families can grow their own food — provided the subscriptions come in fast enough.
- The Struggle to Pave Washington Street
City council debates the funding of street repairs as residents turn to private subscription to finish the job.
- Found Destitute on a Float at the Foot of Franklin Street
Fever takes an infant on Sunday and the mother on Monday, and a subscription pays for the burial.
- The Great Seattle Canal Subscription Scandal
Prominent business leaders expose the local newspaper's fabricated list of wealthy donors to the Lake Washington ship canal project.
- The Broken Promise of the University
A bitter civic dispute over why the territorial university moved from Port Townsend to Seattle, revealing 19th-century political maneuvering and broken handshakes.
- The High Price of News
Skyrocketing costs during the Civil War forced the Washington Standard to raise subscription prices to survive.
- The Canal Fund Was Almost Full—and St. Louis Was Waiting
Seattle waterway boosters needed $50,000 to start contract No. 3. With a deadline looming, Eugene Semple promised the money in three or four days.
- A Wagon Road, a Supply Store, and 400 Hogs for Seattle
Snoqualmie road boosters say Kittitas subscriptions are coming in fast as their young secretary opens a store and stable at Preston.
- Was the College Location Bought?
A regent suggests the Pullman site for the agricultural college was secured through secret payments.
- The Rails That Built Seattle
Civic leaders convene to expand the Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad, the ambitious line designed to link the growing city to the bounty of the east.
- The Patriotic Strawberry Farmer
A Richland grower contributes half of his town's Liberty Loan total, demonstrating his support for the Great War effort.
- How Seattle Raised $50,000 for Its Canal — Bootblacks Included
A San Francisco paper marveled that Seattle's Lake Washington canal fund came in small donations from rich and poor alike, a civic-spirit story with a Puget Sound lesson.
- Pike Street Merchants Open Their Wallets for a Seattle Canal
A volunteer subscription drive added nearly $20,000 to the south canal fund, with Pike Street merchants leading the push and a railroad receiver boasting of Seattle's 'backbone and grit.'