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4 stories matching wheez
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:wheezi, wheel, wheedl, wheeli, wheefer, wheelan
- The Patent Medicine Hustle on Front Street
A Seattle reporter investigates the miraculous 'medical inhalations' of an advertising physician, uncovering a trail of dubious health claims and desperate patients.
- The Depot That Took Twenty Years
A steam shovel finally broke ground for Tacoma's new Northern Pacific station, ending two decades of promises.
- The Great Pig Entrapment of 1886
A pig's quest for kitchen scraps leads to a neighborhood-wide ordeal in downtown Seattle, involving the Fire Department and a very persistent squeal.
- The Forest Empire That Built Washington
A sweeping 1900 survey of the state's lumber industry counted billions of feet of standing timber, 250 sawmills, and $7 million a year in wages—proof that the trees, not the cities, came first.