All posts tagged "Depression"
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12.2K1Business and LaborThe Rise and Fall of the Fore River Shipyard
The Fore River Shipyard started out as a farm in East Braintree, Mass., when Thomas Watson bought it. Watson had loaned money...
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11.2KScience and NatureRosewater, Bezoar Stone and Unicorn Horn: Seven Colonial Remedies
Colonial New England had no shortage of illness and no shortage of colonial remedies. Our forebears left records of suffering with diseases...
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10.5K4ConnecticutNoah Webster Cures the Blues With a Spelling Book
Noah Webster might never have published his blue-backed speller if it weren’t for setbacks in his career and disappointment in love. In...
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12.2K15MaineA Maine Shoemaker’s Potato Patch Plan Feeds the Poor
During the terrible depression that followed the Panic of 1893, a transplanted Maine shoemaker came up with a widely ridiculed idea to...
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26.5K3Business and LaborRhode Island Food Lore: The New York System Wiener
In the annals of Rhode Island food traditions, the New York System wiener is probably the most misleading. New Yorkers know nothing...
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