Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database

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- Albert S. Goss
- 1937
- Albert S. Goss--Here in Eastern Washington when this was one congressional district, there formerly lived Albert S. Goss. He became head of the state Grange. His brilliant leadership brought the Grange to one of the outstanding influences of the...
- State history. State officials. Governors. Martin, Clarence D. 1937-06-03
- How Spokane became a mining center
- 1931
- How Spokane became a mining center - This is the record of a life that presonifies the mining history of the northwest. Forty-six years ago L. K. Armstrong, with a background of a decage of practical mining experience in the Black Hills of South...
- Northwest history. Mining. Associations. 1931-06-24
- On first train to davenport
  Mrs. Hannah Jane Brock, 74, jumped into blizzard back in 1889.
  Found shack in strom
  Driver became lost on way to new home of pioneers-saw gold panned.
- 1930
- On first train to davenport
  Mrs. Hannah Jane Brock, 74, jumped into blizzard back in 1889.
  Found shack in strom
  Driver became lost on way to new home of pioneers-saw gold panned.
  Only to a few belongs the distinction of being aboard the...
- State history. State of Washington Pioneers. B. 1930-11-30
- Their farm became city blocks
- 1916
- Their farm became city blocks
  The above picture is of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Stage and was taken Friday afternoon at the pioneer's picnic. Mr. and Mrs. Stage settled in Spokane 36 years ago and purchased a 40-acre tract east of Sherman street and...
- State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1916-07-09
- Attack pickets - bloody noses and torn clothes in evidence at mill
- 1937
- Attack pickets - bloody noses and torn clothes in evidence at mill - As bloody noses and torn clothing became numerous at most lumber mills today when CIO millworkers attacked AFOL pickets, operators became pessimistic and indicated that the mills,...
- Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Strikes and riots. 1937-09-01
- To develop Costin's mine
- 1936
- To develop Costin's mine.
  Gorder and Burgess plan on active work-to open office. The Idaho Diamond-Sulphide Co., with property in upper Cougar Gulch, on the Mica flats side, is due for intensive development, according to Frank Costin, original...
- Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-04-17
- How a mohawk became old
- 1935
- How a mohawk became old. - Innumerable old gentlemen have imparted to us their quite positive opinions on how an old gentlemen gets that way. Each is firmly persuaded that in himself rests the true secret of longevity. There's John Carl Fast Deer...
- State history. Native Americans. Aged Native Americans. 1935-10-26
- Early Indian custom
- 1936
- Early Indian custom. - One of the customs of the early Ohio Indians was to assemble each autumn along the banks of the Cuyahoga at Cleveland and indulge in a general frolic. After piling up their canoes on the river bank and turning over all their...
- State history. Native Americans. Celebrations, picnics & pow wows. 1936-11-06
- 1936
- I met Albert S. Goss in Spokane yesterday. For many years he was master of the Washington State Grange. And what a sound, capable leader he was! Then toward the end of his residence here he became a member of the Columbia Basin Commission. It was...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1936-12-27
- Just 14 months ago this spot was nothing but sagebrush
- 1934
- Just 14 months ago this spot was nothing but sagebrush. - From the sage brush has sprung the thriving little town of Grand Coulee, since construction of the Grand Coulee dam became more than a dream. The picture shows the town as it looks today,...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-10-24
- John E. Lewis collection of Indian relics is given to University at Missoula
- 1936
- John E. Lewis collection of Indian relics is given to University at Missoula. - To a chance meeting of a professional baseball player and a cowboy artist in Helena in 1889, State University faculty members attached considerable educational...
- State history. Native Americans. Relics & antiques. 1936-06-13
- The last palouse
- 1936
- The last palouse / by B. F. Manning Of the adult Palouses who were thus amalgamated with other tribes, very few, if any, are now living. Merged as they were into the various tribes, their identity as Palouses became lost. For some years a few...
- State history. Native Americans. Historical. 1936-02-21. p. 1.
- Indians invade post falls
- 1919
- Indians invade post falls. - Upper Post Falls, Idaho, Saturday became a wild west scene when the score or more of gaudily decorated Indians with the Catherine Curtis moving Picture company established camp at the falls. Their camp was a part of a...
- State History. Native Americans. Theater. 1919-11-11
- Indian trail marker erected
- 1929
- Indian trail marker erected. - The old Colville-Walla Walla Indian trial which later became one of the principal highways of central Washington, is now marked at the point where it crossed the Sunset highway by a massive granite monument, the gift...
- State History. Native Americans. Trails. 1929-06-13
- Indian fishing plea is denied
- 1937
- Indian fishing plea is denied. - Federal Judge J. Stanley Webster's denial of a motion filed here to restrain state game officials from collecting license fees from Indians fishing in the Columbia river became known today. A petition asking for a...
- State history. Native Americans. Treaties. 1937-05-16
- Indians fought over buffalo
- 1936
- Indians fought over buffalo. - With buffalo meat for food, buffalo hides for clothes and lodges, buffalo bones, horns and sinews for fashioning weapons, tools and implements--small wonder that the mighty animal became a strong motive in Indian...
- State history. Native Americans. War & uprisings. 1936-07-02
- Divorce ends Indian romance
- 1918
- Divorce ends Indian romance. - W. Smith tells court that wife and her affinity attended fair. - That he married an Indian girl two years ago who later became infatuated with another Indian and was seen at the interstate fair here with him and was...
- State history. Native Americans. Weddings & divorces. 1918-03-28
- Concrete spans Columbia river
- 1937
- Concrete spans Columbia river. - Late last week the two separate masses of concrete at the dam site became interconnected, and for the first time in the great river's long history a solid mass of concrete spanned the stream from shore to shore.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1937-09-02
- Stream of cars sweeps to dam
- 1934
- Stream of cars sweeps to dam. - Cars pour into Coulee. - Grand Coulee Center, where the Wilbur-Almira and Coulee highways join, became the most important city in the United States today upon the arrival of President Roosevelt.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Visitors. Tourists. 1934-08-04
- Hutton urges basin project
- 1936
- Hutton urges basin project. - "Reclamation first became a national policy under a republican administration," Arthur J. Hutton, Fifth district republican candidate for congress, told the Young Men's Republican club a meeting last night at the...
- State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1936-08-07