Recent stories by Jim

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 22, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Did you know that there were once houseboats in Spokane?

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 21, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Wedding bells rang for H.C. Parker, 60, who had advertised for a wife in The Spokesman-Review earlier in the year.

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 19, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago The three “spinster” Scovell sisters, who lived on a farm together near Republic, Wash., had “the often-expressed wish” that “when death claimed one, the …

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 18, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago Bandleader H.A. Driscoll came out in favor of a dangerous new form of music: ragtime.

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 17, 2013 in City on Page A7 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane was congratulating itself on being a particularly healthy city. On this date in 1913, the city had only nine cases of scarlet fever, …

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 16, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago The wife of Spokane police Officer Chester Edwards caught the last part of her husband’s phone conversation – and she didn’t like what she …

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 15, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago High water in the Spokane River reached its highest stage in 19 years, and the Howard Street Bridge was in trouble.

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 14, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago An Odessa rancher was out working in his fields when his 3-year-old child ran out to him with this chilling message: “Mama is dead.”

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 12, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago Peter Valise, 22, a professional “dip” (pickpocket), was arrested for lifting $37.20 from the pockets of Pazzarinlo Pizzolli while watching the moving pictures at …

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 11, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane’s city government was settling into its new City Hall at Wall Street and Trent Avenue (now Spokane Falls Boulevard).

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 10, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane police arrested two brothers, James and Charles Fueston, for the murder of Albert J. Williams, the teenager who was bludgeoned with a gas …

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 9, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Mrs. Mary Johnston was allowed out of the county jail to attend the funeral of her adult son, Raymond Johnston – the same son …

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 8, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Two boys playing in a barn near East Sprague came upon a sinister cache: a bottle of nitroglycerine, a box of dynamite caps, some …

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 7, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago An “organized band of desperadoes” were at work in the Newport, Wash., area. A month earlier, they had robbed a bank at Priest River.

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 5, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago The Rev. J.W. Johnson of Westminster Congregational Church in Spokane preached a sermon urging tolerance toward Japanese immigrants.

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 4, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago The “stenogs” – stenographers – in the city’s legal department were apparently fed up with secondhand smoke, although that term probably didn’t even exist …

• Edstrom’s piano concerto jazzes up a classical form

  May 3, 2013 in Features on Page W12 It’s rare for a composer to write an original concerto for a local orchestra. It’s doubly rare for that concerto to be for jazz piano.

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 3, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago The president of the Inland Automobile Association advocated a new kind of law for Spokane: A “jay-walker” law.

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 2, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago The Ancient Order of the Bearded Knights was refusing to yield under the sharp edge of public pressure.

• Jim Kershner’s this day in history

  May 1, 2013 in City on Page A5 From our archives, 100 years ago Game warden Ivy Collins was in his lonely camp on the Spokane River, questioning a man named Emmet Folmsbee about a sack of trout …

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