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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1935-12-06


    • Greet each other again after sixty-five years

    • 1935

    • Greet each other again after sixty-five years
      Until Thursday they had not seen each other for 65 years, although Mrs. Julia Stevenson (left), who will be 99 years old on New Year's day, has lived in Spokane 20 years, and her guest, Mrs. C. P....
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1935-12-06
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Export & import. 1919-03-14


    • Lumbermen may unite to rescue more owners - Herrick would cut prices and take profits out of other pockets

    • 1919

    • Lumbermen may unite to rescue more owners - Herrick would cut prices and take profits out of other pockets - Owners of Inland Empire lumber mills and the mines of the Coeur d'Alene district must cooperate to force down the price of stulls and...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Export & import. 1919-03-14
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-03-01


    • Miners' dream coming true - mills, mines over Elk City and other camps where prospects stood

    • 1936

    • Miners' dream coming true - mills, mines over Elk City and other camps where prospects stood - Twenty-six years ago this winter, a few hundred men went stampeding in snow of the Elk City and Ten Mile districts of Idaho to see the Lone Pine strike...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-03-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-08-27


    • Prospect for ore on Moran prairie

    • 1928

    • Prospect for ore on Moran prairie.
      Young men find indications of valuable minerals near Spokane.
      Thomas Booth became so interested in his chemistry studies when he was a senior in Lewis and Clark high school a year ago, that he obtained...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-08-27
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Legislation. 1935-05-13


    • Californian includes Parker and other dams in bill.

    • 1935

    • Californian includes Parker and other dams in bill. - Senator Johnson today introduced a bill authorizing the president to construct Parker dam, the Grand Coulee dam, and 28 other structures undertaken by the Public Works administration....
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Legislation. 1935-05-13
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1936-02-26


    • Guard Coulee project

    • 1936

    • Guard Coulee project. - Its broad point of view is the high merit of the Pacific northwest regional planning commission's report to the president. It grasps the present and visions the future. In the field of the immediate present we have the Grand...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1936-02-26
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1937-01-17. p. 1.


    • Progress issue highly lauded

    • 1937

    • Progress issue highly lauded. - Prominent men urge sending it east to show Coulee's need. - Praise for the Progress edition of The Spokesman-Review as a practical method of acquainting the east and other regions of the nation with the greatness and...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1937-01-17. p. 1.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1937-01-17. p. 2.


    • Progress issue highly lauded

    • 1937

    • Progress issue highly lauded. - Prominent men urge sending it east to show Coulee's need. - Praise for the Progress edition of The Spokesman-Review as a practical method of acquainting the east and other regions of the nation with the greatness and...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1937-01-17. p. 2.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Maps & aerial views. 1935-10-03


    • Aerial photograph shows bridges and other developments at Coulee dam site

    • 1935

    • Aerial photograph shows bridges and other developments at Coulee dam site. - Grand Coulee is rapidly stealing Spokane's thunder as the "City of Bridges." This aerial photograph is looking north toward Mason City in the right background and the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Maps & aerial views. 1935-10-03
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-08-02


    • Roosevelt visit recalls other presidential guests of Spokane

    • 1934

    • Roosevelt visit recalls other presidential guests of Spokane. - Presidential tours have frequently brought the nation's chief executive into Spokane and the Inland Empire. When his special train brings Franklin Delano Roosevelt into Spokane from...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-08-02
    • State history. Native Americans. Population. 1937-06-06


    • Indians making rapid headway

    • 1937

    • Indians making rapid headway. - Increasing faster than any other segment of U. S. population. - Our Indians, believed only a few years ago to be remnants of a vanishing race, are now increasing more rapidly than any other segment of our population....
    • State history. Native Americans. Population. 1937-06-06
    • State History. Native Americans. Sports. 1928-06-12


    • Indian runner scratches entry

    • 1928

    • Indian runner scratches entry. - Withdrawal of Nicholas Quomawahu peps up other contestants in redwood race. - Nicholas Quomawahu, fleet-foot of the Hopi tribe, isn't going to race in the Redwood highway Indian Marathon, after all, and the...
    • State History. Native Americans. Sports. 1928-06-12
    • State history. Native Americans. Vital statistics. 1937-06-06


    • Indians making rapid headway

    • 1937

    • Indians making rapid headway. - Increasing faster than any other segment of U. S. population. - Our Indians, believed only a few years ago to be remnants of a vanishing race, are now increasing more rapidly than any other segment of our population....
    • State history. Native Americans. Vital statistics. 1937-06-06
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-08-07. p. 1.


    • Early-Day Indian chronology was based on winter snow

    • 1937

    • Early-Day Indian chronology was based on winter snow. - Before the alphabet was invented primitive people felt the need of having some way of representing their thoughts other than by speech. Tradition was interesting, but not reliable. Those who...
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-08-07. p. 1.
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-08-07. p. 2.


    • Early-Day Indian chronology was based on winter snow

    • 1937

    • Early-Day Indian chronology was based on winter snow. - Before the alphabet was invented primitive people felt the need of having some way of representing their thoughts other than by speech. Tradition was interesting, but not reliable. Those who...
    • State history. Native Americans. Weather conditions. 1937-08-07. p. 2.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-09-07


    • Roads at Coulee dam need constant care

    • 1935

    • Roads at Coulee dam need constant care. - Continual scraping is the only that keeps contractors' roads in passable condition at the Coulee dam site, due to gouging caused by tremendously heavy work trucks and others carrying materials for the dam...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-09-07
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1936-03-06


    • Round and round, boom! boom! and comes out here

    • 1936

    • Round and round, boom! boom! and comes out here. - Water goes in this side and out the other side comes power and the water that made it. This is the upstream face of the power house at Bonneville, where the Columbia river soon will be rushing. The...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1936-03-06
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Safety campaign & measures. 1936-09-16


    • MWAk heads take steps to prevent drowning in river

    • 1936

    • MWAk heads take steps to prevent drowning in river. - Life-Preserver vests and guards to save men. - "Falling in the river" is a dangerous business, according to safety records of companies who have built apparatus in the middle of turbulent...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Safety campaign & measures. 1936-09-16
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Visitors. Tourists. 1934-08-02


    • Visitors on way to Coulee dam

    • 1934

    • Visitors on way to Coulee dam. - Bound for the Grand Coulee dam, where President Roosevelt is to speak Saturday, scores of visitors from other towns and other states were arriving in Wenatchee today. Hotels reported near capacity reservations.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Visitors. Tourists. 1934-08-02

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