Business and Labor
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2.8KThe Rise and Fall of the Belfast Broiler Festival
Mainers by the thousands celebrated Waldo County’s Mardi Gras for four decades: the Belfast Broiler Festival. Men from the poultry farms and...
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2.7KIda Tarbell, Investigative Journalist, Takes Down John D. Rockefeller
In the 1930s, Ida Tarbell sat down at her mahogany desk in the sunny library of her Easton, Conn., farmhouse. She wrote...
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2.3KThe Portuguese Farmers Who Made Falmouth Strawberries Famous
In 1892, Manuel Viera Martins retired from whaling and bought a cottage in the Waquoit section of Falmouth, Mass. He and his...
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3.9KCrazy Henry Baldwin, the Mentally Ill Supreme Court Justice
In the history of the United States, only 120 people have served on the Supreme Court. Some suffered from mental illness. Henry...
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7.3KA.C. Gilbert, The Man Who Saved Christmas (and Invented the Erector Set)
In 1918, America was at war. The country needed to devote all of its industrial might to victory in Europe. A war...
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