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The upper-class women of Boston gave $1.34 for every rat carcass turned in during Rat Day of 1917, ...
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Arts and Leisure
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Doris Duke, the Last Gilded Age Socialite of Newport
In 1925 at the age of 12, Doris Duke became the richest little girl in the world. She ...
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6 Hollywood Stars Buried in New England
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The Saturday Evening Girls Make Pottery History
Business and Labor
Politics and Military
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General John Stark and the Eureka Counterfeiting Ring
When the workmen were tearing down the old Wells & Newell’s Store in Springfield, Vt. in the early ...
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6 Places That Used To Be Part of a Different State
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Five year old Elizabeth Bright is Kidnapped in 1837
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Boston’s John Allen: The Uncool Revolutionary
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Boston Corbett – The Mad Hatter who Killed John Wilkes Booth
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When Cleveland Belonged to Connecticut
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In 1773, Ansell Nickerson Was a Dead Man Walking Until John Adams Stepped In
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Edward Everett Reminds the Nation that We Are Still One People
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6 Places That Became a Summer White House
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Mooning and Hillsborough Treats as the Revolution Comes to a Boil
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Caleb Brewster Crosses the Devil’s Belt
