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2 stories matching yong

Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:yon, yona, yonk, young, yonder, yonson

  1. A Threat in Chinatown: The Laundryman, the Secret Society, and the Police Escort

    After a robbery in Wa Chong’s building, a Chinese agent fears assassination by a band of seventeen ‘highbinders’ and asks Captain Brennan for safe conduct home.

    Mar 25, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyTrue Crime

  2. The Right to Belong: A Seattle Immigrant’s Plea

    Denied citizenship by a court, a Chinese resident explains his life, his work, and his refusal to cut his queue as he navigates exclusion in 1886 Seattle.

    Jan 26, 1886Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyExclusion & Resistance

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