All posts tagged "Great Depression"
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45.7K3ConnecticutHercules Had It Easy Compared to the Great 1938 Hurricane Tree Cleanup
The Great 1938 Hurricane blew down so many trees that paper mills were still processing them nine years later. Trees downed by...
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6.6K2MaineEight-Year-Old Carleton Nicholls Stands Up For Freedom of Speech … and Sits Down
In October of 1935, Lynn, Mass., schools expelled eight-year-old Carleton Nicholls for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag,...
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95.5K28Arts and LeisureHow Portuguese Immigrants Came to New England
In 1915, four Madeiran men organized a feast at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New Bedford, Mass. They did it...
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7.4K1Arts and LeisureSeabiscuit Takes His First Step to Fame at Suffolk Downs
Seabiscuit, the knock-kneed little horse with the big heart, met the man who made him a champion at Suffolk Downs Race Course...
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27.1K15Business and LaborKatharine Gibbs Invents the Modern Professional Secretary
Katharine Gibbs in 1911 founded her first secretarial school in Providence after learning the hard way that inherited wealth is an uncertain...
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45.4K32MassachusettsThe Orphan Train and the Children Who Rode It
In 1926, a four-year-old orphan named Lorraine Williams and 13 other children were scrubbed, dressed in new clothes and put onto an...
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