All posts tagged "chinese immigrants"

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  Henning Jacobson Loses His Fight With the Board of Public Health Over Vaccination

  Henning Jacobson, a Swedish minister, in 1905 refused vaccination during a smallpox epidemic in Cambridge, Mass., in 1905. Then he refused to...

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  Business and Labor

  Amelia Earhart Takes Off From East Boston Airport

  The trans-Atlantic flight that made Amelia Earhart a celebrity worldwide in 1928 started off at East Boston Airport – now known to...