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Seattle always had anti-vaxxers — even during smallpox
In 1920, the city’s commissioner of public health called Seattle “a hot bed for anti-vaccination, Christian Science, and various anti-medical cults.”
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Mossback's Northwest: Gold fever launched Seattle’s aerospace obsession
The idea of airships delivering provisions to the 1897 Alaskan gold fields gave rise to global sightings of fantastical flying machines.
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Mossback’s Northwest: An end to Seattle’s ramps to nowhere
The ramps to an imagined expressway were built during freeway frenzy in the 1960s. Now, all but one are coming down.
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How one-party rule came to Washington state
King County Republicans used to dominate the suburbs. That era is over.
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Seattle struggled with suicide in late stages of the 1918 flu
Here and beyond, reports of deaths by suicide indicate the mental health toll likely caused by the influenza pandemic.