Recent stories by Jim

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history

  February 12, 2012 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane’s chief health officer issued an odd pronouncement: “Impure air or ‘canned atmosphere’ was the cause of 60 percent of the deaths in Spokane.”

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history » On the Web: spokesman.com/topics/local-history

  February 11, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago One workman was dead and another in jail for murder after a deadly confrontation at the Washington Brick and Lime Co. near Dishman.

• Curious case of Glutton

  February 10, 2012 in Features on Page C1 So Paula Deen, Southern cooking maven, has diabetes. America’s self-righteous “foodie” world is sadly clucking its tongue and shaking its head. All of that grease. All of those calories. All …

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history » On the Web: spokesman.com/topics/local-history

  February 10, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A parent-teacher meeting at Holmes Elementary produced some shocking information: Hundreds of students were attending vaudeville and motion picture shows at least once a …

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history

  February 9, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A Mother’s Congress in Spokane, ever vigilant for signs of creeping immorality among its daughters, took on two threats to public decency.

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history » On the Web: spokesman.com/topics/local-history

  February 8, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago The Rev. Frank E. Whitham, pastor of the Hope Congregational Church in Newport, was hauled before a church investigative committee – for playing billiards. …

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history » On the Web: spokesman.com/topics/local-history

  February 7, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Police were called out repeatedly to what were called “disturbances” involving soldiers from Fort George Wright’s black regiments – but it turned out to …

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history

  February 5, 2012 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago A traveling correspondent chronicled the significant changes taking place on the arid lands around Moses Lake and Ephrata.

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history » On the Web: spokesman.com/topics/local-history

  February 4, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago D.L. Huntington, the president of Washington Water Power, returned from an inspection trip to Long Lake on the Spokane River and reported that work …

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history » On the Web: spokesman.com/topics/local-history

  February 3, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago One of the “most exciting scenes ever witnessed in the Baptist Church” at Nelson, B.C., took place in a Bible class.

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history

  February 2, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 75 years ago The proverbial groundhog had little chance of burrowing through the snow in 1937. The town of Latah in southeastern Spokane County was particularly hard …

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history » On the Web: spokesman.com/topics/local-history

  February 1, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A sad incident on the Pend Oreille River illustrated the desperate condition of the Kalispel Tribe in 1912.

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history » On the Web: spokesman.com/topics/local-history

  January 31, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A crowd of hundreds of Wobblies (members of the Industrial Workers of the World) confronted Spokane police in a tense confrontation that recalled the … 1

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history

  January 30, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 50 years ago The head of the Spokane County sheriff’s juvenile division said he knew what was to blame for creating so many “punks” and “dropouts”: the …

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history

  January 29, 2012 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago Secretary of War Henry Stimson shocked Spokane by proposing the closure of 16 Army posts, including Fort George Wright. He said he wanted to …

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history » On the Web: spokesman.com/topics/local-history

  January 28, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago The “banned” play, “The Devil,” went on as scheduled at the American Theater in Spokane – despite the fact that Mayor Hindley had declared …

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history » On the Web: spokesman.com/topics/local-history

  January 27, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago A family tragedy unfolded in Moscow, Idaho, after a 17-year-old girl attended a church revival meeting against the wishes of her father.

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history

  January 26, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago The exuberant kids of Spokane got a little too exuberant during the snow-covered January of 1912 – and the city authorities moved to put …

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history » On the Web: spokesman.com/topics/local-history

  January 25, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Sensational new details about the Margaret Armstrong-George Howell marriage emerged from a Los Angeles courtroom. Armstrong’s attorney accused Howell of being a “fortune hunter” …

• Jim Kershner’s This day in history » On the Web: spokesman.com/topics/local-history

  January 24, 2012 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago The doomed romantic saga of Margaret Armstrong took another dramatic twist in a Los Angeles courtroom. She was the Spokane businesswoman and florist whose …

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