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124 stories matching wrap
- Tacoma's Women Take On the Bakers Over Wrapped Bread
A committee of pure-food reformers and a dozen bakers squared off before the city council's health committee over an ordinance requiring bread be wrapped — with more than 1,000 women enlisted behind the fight.
- The Bread Wrapping War: Tacoma Women Take On City Hall
With 1,500 club members, city doctors and a health inspector behind them, Tacoma women demand that bakery bread be wrapped—and that dogs be barred from groceries.
- A Newborn Found in a Basket Under a Tacoma Cemetery Bridge
A coroner's grim morning in 1895: an abandoned infant discovered in Oakland Cemetery, wrapped in a lady's undervest and calico, with no clue to its mother.
- The Crusade for Wrapped Bread
Tacoma women take on the bakers' association to mandate sanitary packaging.
- The High Cost of Packaging
Yakima Valley fruit shippers consider a major shift to marketing apples without paper wraps to offset rising production costs.
- The Tragic Death of Mollie Flippen
After surviving a notorious criminal past in Portland, a woman’s life ends in a horrific fire at a Seattle boarding house.
- The Tragedy at Virginia Street
A grisly discovery on the Seattle waterfront exposes the hidden desperation of 1889.
- The Fight for Clean Bread in Tacoma
Tacoma women mobilize to push a city sanitation ordinance through the council, battling bakers who claim wrapping bread is too expensive and technically impossible.
- The Bread That Wouldn't Wrap: How Spokane’s Bakers Went on Strike Over a Label
In November 1902, a dispute over union rules and bread packaging sparked a walkout at the Quaker Bread Company, revealing the complex web of labor alliances in early 20th-century Spokane.
- The Hidden Hoard of Seattle's Recluse
When two elderly men were found dead in a filthy, squalid room, a subsequent search revealed a small fortune stashed in bedposts and rags.
- The Iron-Molded Suit: When Tailors Pressed Clothes Onto Your Body
A bizarre new fashion trend in Seattle has women wrapping themselves in hot irons to 'mold' their suits into shape.
- The Inside Job at MacDougall & Southwick
A trusted department manager is arrested after he is caught pocketing cash from a customer sale.
- A Crushed Finger Gave the Safecracker Away
A suspected Kent burglar was tracked to a Railroad Avenue cabin, where police found skeleton keys, drills and powder—then identified him by the crushed finger described in an old escape notice.
- The Consul’s Advice: How to Sell to China
Consul General John Goodnow advises Tacoma merchants that success in the Orient depends on cultural sensitivity and precise adherence to local conventions.
- Branding the Valley: Why Yakima Fruit Needs a Label
A local observer warns that Yakima’s high-quality peaches are losing their identity in big-city markets to Walla Walla branding.
- Lice Threaten the Hop and Apple Crop, and the State Says Spray Now
Washington's horticulture board warns that leaf lice are spreading fast in Western Washington and issues a detailed spraying recipe before the harvest is lost.
- The Miracle of the Daily Paper: How Pullman’s New Herald Brings the World to Your Doorstep
In its inaugural editorial, the newly launched *Pullman Herald* reflects on the alchemy of journalism—transforming rags into news—and celebrates the fertile wheat lands of the Palouse.
- 1885 Trial Examines Killings of Three Chinese Men in Squak Valley
A trial in Seattle reveals the cold-blooded coordination behind the 1885 anti-Chinese expulsions in Squak Valley, where white laborers and land owners conspired to drive out local workers with gunfire.
- Fire Ravages Olympia’s Government Buildings
The Surveyor General’s office, the Land Office, and a historic church are destroyed in a devastating overnight blaze.
- The Dynamite Fiend of Oilman: A Lynch Mob’s Tragic Mistake
When a violent feud in King County’s coal fields ended in a massacre, the community turned to vigilante justice. But when they hanged the wrong man, the real killer walked free.
- The Night a Streetcar Powerhouse Fire Left Half of Seattle Dark
A pre-dawn blaze at Fifth and Pine gutted the Consolidated Street Railway plant, destroyed nearly all its cars and dynamos, crippled three lines, and blacked out everything north of Pike Street.
- The Deadly Gift Sent to the Melodeon
A scorned woman in Seattle finds herself the target of a sophisticated homemade bomb disguised as a gift.
- The Open-Air Slumber of Seattle's Waterfront
When the summer heat turned tenement apartments into 'human lumber-boxes,' thousands of Seattle residents—men, women, and children alike—sought respite by camping overnight on the exposed, city-owned piers.
- The Deadly Ambush at Council Prairie
An eye-witness account of a harrowing escape during the Puget Sound Indian War, describing a fatal skirmish, a desperate trek through winter swamps, and the loss of Colonel A. Benton Moses.
- The Great Blizzard of 1892
A historic ten-inch snowfall paralyzes Seattle's transit systems, forces school closures, and creates an eerie, blanketed stillness across Western Washington.
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- A Tolt Farmer Grows Tobacco Good Enough for Eastern Cigar Wrappers
Charles Nelson's tobacco samples from Tolt draw flattering reports from Eastern houses, with buyers calling it the finest wrapper leaf grown in the United States.
- The Mayor’s Sealed Envelope: A City Holds Its Breath
Mayor Humes returns the saloon redistricting ordinance to the City Council in a sealed envelope, sparking wild speculation about whether he has vetoed the measure or simply signed it into law.
- The Secret in the Express Office
A rough, sullen express worker's life is transformed when he uncovers a personal relic inside a lost package.
- A Community Effort for Overseas Aid
Schools across Benton County unite to gather cast-off clothing for Near East Relief orphanages in Armenia, Syria, and Greece.
- The Science of the Double Shock
Kennewick housewives master a high-stakes food preservation method to support the wartime conservation effort.
- The Counterfeit 'Rye Straw' Cigar Scam
Tobacco merchants discover a deceptive new counterfeit cigar wrapper made of chemically treated rye straw.
- A Close Call at the Buffalo Shingle Mill
A mill worker is lucky to keep his arm after a terrifying accident with a shingle saw.
- A Breakfast Tragedy at Pacific Avenue
A local woman’s accidental encounter with a cable car turns the intersection into an omelette station.