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100 years ago in Spokane: Medical Society debate shows the debate over paying for health care isn’t new

Wed., May 29, 2019

The Spokane Medical Society was considering a proposal to expel members who had contracts with companies to provide care for their employees.

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100 years ago in Spokane: North Central High School girls vote for stricter dress code

Tue., May 28, 2019

Girls at North Central High School voted overwhelmingly for a stricter dress code.

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100 years ago in Spokane: City wins seized German cannon in World War I Victory bond drive

UPDATED: Fri., May 24, 2019

Spokane came from behind on the final day of competition and won a seized German cannon.

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News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: Founder of Deaconess movement honored at Spokane convention as hospital prepares for new six-story building

Thu., May 23, 2019

Lucy Ryder Meyer, the founder of the Deaconess movement – which led to the creation of Deaconess Hospital in Spokane and other organizations across the country – was in town and celebrated at a conference.

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100 years ago in Inland Northwest: Spokane movie wins praise by Variety; Nez Perce Tribe to be featured in Hollywood film

Wed., May 22, 2019

Variety reviewed the recently finished movie completed by a fledging Spokane movie company declared it “strong.”

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: Mayor warns veterans not to act as mob against radicals

Tue., May 21, 2019

Returning World War I soldiers warned the Spokane City Council that they would use violence to stop “the speeches of radicals in Spokane who are insulting the flag and American soldiers.”

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Man killed when struck by vehicle in Airway Heights; driver at large

UPDATED: Fri., May 17, 2019

A man was killed Thursday evening when he was struck by a vehicle in Airway Heights.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: Juries award $1,500 to parents of boy who died from rabies and family of girl who fell in Hutton Building elevator shaft

Fri., May 17, 2019

The parents of a boy who died from rabies and the parents of a girl who fell 75 feet down an elevator shaft were each awarded $1,500 by juries in separate civil trials.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: Seventh-graders build sidewalk, drinking fountains, basement floors at Hamilton school

Thu., May 16, 2019

Seventh-grade boys in manual training classes at Hamilton and Whitman schools installed a 100-foot long sidewalk at Hamilton school.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: City prepares for train with 300 wounded soldiers; North Central High School girls embrace stricter dress code

Wed., May 15, 2019

A train carrying about 300 wounded soldiers was scheduled to stop briefly in Spokane on the way to Camp Lewis.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: Report in S-R about travel record between Latah and Spokane lands driver in front of judge

UPDATED: Tue., May 14, 2019

A report in The Spokesman-Review backfired on Joseph S. Bain, of the Eldridge-Buick Company in Spokane.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: Urban farmers with cows squeezed by new Washington law

Sat., May 11, 2019

Owners of dairy cows in cities were learning of a recently-passed state law that created significant obstacles for them to continue selling milk.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: ‘Dead’ World War I soldier declares himself alive; Spokane Club saves itself

Fri., May 10, 2019

A World War I soldier listed as dead by the war department showed up very much alive at Spokane’s Victory loan headquarters.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: Valley irrigation company prepares to auction ‘choice suburban tracts’

Thu., May 9, 2019

The Orchard Avenue Irrigation Company was auctioning 129 “choice suburban tracts” of up to 5 acres.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: Plans announced to build new Episcopal cathedral in honor of soldiers killed in World War I

Wed., May 8, 2019

All Saints Episcopal church announced it would build a new cathedral that would be dedicated to those killed in action during World War I.

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100 years ago in Spokane: Soldiers, terrier celebrate return from World War I

Tue., May 7, 2019

Spokane gave an enthusiastic welcome to the 91st Infantry Division as more soldiers returned from World War I.

News >  Spokane

100 Years Ago in Spokane: Child’s fall down Hutton elevator shaft gets new trial

Mon., May 6, 2019

A judge granted a new trial in the civil case against Levi W. Hutton, who was sued by the family of Virginia Getty, a 6-year-old who fell 75 feet in an elevator shaft in the Hutton Building the previous October.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: Bomb that targeted Seattle mayor arrives for inspection

UPDATED: Thu., May 2, 2019

Meanwhile, Hansen was in Kansas promoting Victory bonds. In a speech to the Topeka Chamber of Commerce, Hansen attacked Wobblies and anarchists.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: Billy Sunday, famous evangelist, to lead rally at armory for Victory bonds

Wed., May 1, 2019

Billy Sunday, the nation’s most prominent evangelist was in town, not for his usual religious revival, but to rally support for Victory Bonds to pay for the United States’ involvement in World War I.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: Milkmen demand 1 day off in 7

Tue., April 30, 2019

Spokane milkmen were on the verge of a strike.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: Teamsters threaten to strike

Mon., April 29, 2019

Spokane’s teamsters and chauffeurs’ union, which had as many as 800 employed members, were planning to strike in two days.

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100 years ago in Spokane: Trainloads of soldiers to make Spokane go ‘hero wild’

UPDATED: Thu., May 2, 2019

The arrival of returning soldiers from World War I was about to make the city go “hero wild,” the Spokane Daily Chronicle predicted.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Central Washington: Railroad workers strike over lack of bathtubs, decent meals

Sat., April 27, 2019

About 300 men working on a project to electrify the Milwaukee Railroad’s line through Washington were on strike at their job site west of the Columbia River.

News >  Spokane

100 years ago in Spokane: First aerial pictures of city show downtown from eyes of flying circus aviators

UPDATED: Fri., April 26, 2019

The aviators of a “flying circus” (air show) that had wowed Spokane left behind the first aerial pictures ever printed of Spokane.

News >  Spokane

Hallelujah, the temperature in Spokane is normal again. And it just hit 60 degrees.

UPDATED: Tue., March 19, 2019

Spokane’s streak of colder-than-usual temperatures has finally ended.