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Perched Between the Stumps and the Tides: Early Newspapers in Washington Territory

Perched Between the Stumps and the Tides: Early Newspapers in Washington Territory

Thanks to past and ongoing digitization efforts at the Washington State Library, Washington Digital Newspapers hosts digital copies of some of the earliest newspapers published in Washington. Through their columns, early territorial editors provided a glimpse of some of the hardships faced by settlers in general, and by publishers in particular in the 1850s. This blog, one of a three part series, covers the arrival of newspaper publishers in Olympia and Steilacoom and the housing they found in these early…

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The Missing Mayor, a Puzzling Death, and the Interstate Bridge Ghost.

The Missing Mayor, a Puzzling Death, and the Interstate Bridge Ghost.

Random News from the Newspapers on Microfilm Collection: The Missing Mayor, a Puzzling Death, and the Interstate Bridge Ghost. From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: While skimming through WSL microfilm issues of The Evening Columbian (Vancouver, Washington), this short little bit on the top of page 1, November 12, 1920, caught my eye and curiosity: PERCIVAL IS BELIEVED TO HAVE PASSED KALAMA, WN.  RALPH PERCIVAL UNABLE TO FIND FURTHER TRACE OF…

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