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| Year | Stories |
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| 1885 | 1 |
| 1892 | 4 |
5 stories matching two
- The Tragedy of a Henry Rifle
A young boy's life is cut short in a quiet Seattle accident involving a rifle.
- The Battle of the Bazaar Receipts
A Bothell church congregation splits into two warring camps over how to spend $72 raised at a holiday fair.
- Masterminding the Sammamish Valley
Property owners petitioned county commissioners to form a drainage district, hoping to transform miles of 'sluggish' swamp into productive farmland.
- Bothell Shingle Mill Destroyed in Flash Fire
Nearly two million shingles lost in a blaze that erupted in the upper story of a local mill; bridge and office narrowly saved.
- The Great Escape and Capture of the 'Crazy Desperado' of Mercer Slough
A man escapes from the Steilacoom asylum, survives a seventy-mile trek through the wilderness on a shattered ankle, and is eventually captured in a Bothell cabin.