Thomas Carroll, a Centralia resident, was visited by “Mr. and Mrs. J. Brady” of Goldburn, New South Wales, Australia, The Chronicle reported on April 15, 1933. “Mrs. Brady” …
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4/14/23
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Centralia residents were finally able to legally purchase alcohol again for the first time in almost two decades after “3.2 beer” had been legalized on April 7, The Chronicle reported in …
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4/7/23
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Birlie Stidham remained in critical condition at the St. Helen Hospital in Chehalis after being shot twice, The Chronicle reported in its April 1, 1963 edition. The shots had apparently been fired by …
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4/3/23
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Two Green Hill escapees, both 17, admitted to sheriff’s officers they committed a string of thefts before being apprehended, The Chronicle reported on Monday, March 25, 1963. The two escapees …
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3/24/23
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In a story entitled “Worker Nearly Frozen to Death” featured in the Saturday, March 18, 1933 edition of The Chronicle, it was reported that earlier in the week, a man nearly froze to …
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3/17/23
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Janice Laakso was crowned Miss Lewis County on Saturday, March 9, 1963, The Chronicle reported. The “five-foot, two-inch ash blonde lass” from Winlock was 18 years old at the time of her …
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3/10/23
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John Dorris, of Centralia, was transferred from the Centralia Jail to the Thurston County Jail after he fled a police work gang on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 3, 1953. After fleeing, Dorris …
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3/3/23
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William Axberg, a 27-year-old from Centralia, returned to his hometown from military service in the Pacific to see his friends and family for the first time in four years, The Chronicle reported on …
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2/27/23
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A Look Back in Time: Centralia Girl in Coma Receives ‘Chain of Prayers’ From People Around the World
In the Feb. 18, 1963, edition of The Chronicle, it was reported a “chain of prayer” was held for a 6-year-old Centralia girl who was a coma patient at Mary Bridge Children’s …
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2/17/23
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A fence at the Green Hill School in Chehalis would “prove to be inadequate and a costly lesson for taxpayers,” claimed Robert Quant, the Green Hill superintendent. Quant’s warning …
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2/10/23
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The Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1953 edition of The Chronicle reported a pillow thief had been apprehended in Portland after a series of thefts in Chehalis, Centralia, Toledo, Tenino and Yelm. The thief, Jack …
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2/3/23
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The Centralia Police Department’s annual report showed it had made 1,283 arrests during 1952. The report was accepted at a meeting of the Centralia City Commission on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1953, …
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1/27/23
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Three 19-year-old Linfield College “coeds” narrowly escaped death and serious injury on the afternoon of Sunday, Jan. 20, 1963, in what The Chronicle described as a “spectacular …
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1/20/23
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Icy weekend weather trapped 19 passengers and a driver on a Greyhound bus for an hour in Chehalis during the early morning of Monday, Jan. 14, 1963, after the bus skidded on ice into a utility pole, …
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1/13/23
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A front page story included in the Monday, Jan. 7, 1963, edition of The Chronicle detailed a proposal by Chehalis to annex land to its south. Unusual for its time, The Chronicle listed the author of …
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1/6/23
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On the front cover of its Dec. 31, 1962, edition, The Chronicle listed the top five news stories for 1962
The Chronicle declared the Oct. 12 “hurricane-like” storm to be the number one …
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12/30/22
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Lewis County had a “quiet” Christmas in 1952, The Chronicle reported on Friday, Dec. 26, 1952.
“Christmas Day — as it should be — was a peaceful one for the …
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12/26/22
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Charles Sitton believed himself to be the oldest Santa Claus “helper” in the United States, The Chronicle reported on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 1952. Sitton, 81 years old at the time, had been …
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12/23/22
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The First Farmers-Merchants Bank and Trust Company in Centralia apparently persuaded nearly all of its depositors to sign an agreement it believed would protect the bank’s solvency, The …
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12/16/22
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A group of nearly 30 leaders of agricultural organizations met with the four state legislators from Lewis County on the night of Tuesday, Dec. 9, 1952. The four legislators were State Sen. Dale …
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12/9/22
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