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White stuff gets Governor’s son in trouble

White stuff gets Governor’s son in trouble

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library It was a criminal story bound to generate headlines. Federal agents storm a mansion in Seattle, the home of a former Governor’s son. In the course of their search they discover a large amount of a white powdery substance hidden behind a sofa and an arrest is made. It was flour. Around 600 pounds of it. Here’s the report from the Seattle Daily Times, August…

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Mob Rule in Lynden

Mob Rule in Lynden

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: You would think that the inauguration of a local area figure to the office of Washington State Governor would be the commanding top of the fold headline. But not in the January 11, 1905 issue of The Bellingham Herald. Albert Mead’s swearing in ceremony does garner a nice spot, but above the gubernatorial news in bold caps across the top of the paper is the…

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Georgetown Voters Unfair to Dr. Fehr

Georgetown Voters Unfair to Dr. Fehr

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: Pennsylvania-born Dr. Albert Henry Fehr appears to have arrived in the then independent city of Georgetown, Washington around 1908, at age 36. He specialized in horses, and even had a patent in 1899 on a toe-weight for equines. In 1906 he was a one-day national news sensation when he blew the whistle on a horse he was ordered to drug in order to fix a…

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