All posts tagged "banking"
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4.0K4Business and LaborNew England Coffee Houses: From Fad to Revolution to Fraud
Coffee probably first arrived in New England in 1614 when John Smith sailed up the coast on an exploratory voyage. New England...
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18.1K4New HampshireOld Home Days: Frank Rollins, the New Hampshire Man Who Invented Them
June marks the start of Old Home Days season not just in New England, but throughout the United States, in Canada and...
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20.1K6Religion and Social Movements The Great Connecticut Polygamy Crisis of 1903
By 1903, New Haven Congregational minister Henry Learned Hutchins had spent years traveling about Connecticut on behalf of the Connecticut Bible Society,...
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13.3K13Crime and ScandalThe Halifax Explosion – One Sketchy Plea for Help, and Massachusetts Goes the Limit
On the morning of Dec. 6, 1917, a curious telegraph arrived at the offices of Hornblower & Weeks, a Boston investment banking...
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9.6K9Crime and ScandalCharles Ponzi, The Financial Idiot Who Drove Boston Money Mad in 1920
Charles Ponzi sent Bostonians into such a frenzy over his get-rich-quick scheme in 1920 that police had to subdue enthusiastic investors. They...
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6.8K7Business and LaborAndrew Dexter Builds Boston’s First Skyscraper, Causes First Banking Collapse
In 1807, Andrew Dexter began building the tallest building in America, a temple of finance that soared an unheard-of seven stories —...
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