Then you're all wet, Jake. A sordid murder. In 1910, the year that Anna Louise Strong arrived in Seattle, Washington women had just won the right to vote. Strong seized the moment and, riding a tide of labor unrest, became one of the decade's champions of the downtrodden and one of the city's most colorful radicals. In history Halley's comet.
China abolishes slavery.
In Seattle, Washington women win vote. Union Pacific arrives. At the turn of the last century, people in Seattle were fussy about their coffee, curious about the world's richest man and intrigued by the latest fashion trend, a return to basic black. Snippets from the P-I's pages during the first decade of this century. In history Key events that shaped each year during the first decade of the 20th century.