All posts tagged "health"
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20.8K3Business and LaborPolly Peabody, The Bohemian Blueblood Who Invented the Bra
Inventing the bra was possibly the least interesting thing Polly Peabody did in her life. Born Mary Phelps Jacob, she was called...
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11.9K9Business and LaborIn 1867 the First New England Snowbirds Travel South – ‘Feeling Young and Frisky.’
In 1867, Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband Calvin, tiring of New England’s cold climate, visited Florida for the first time. They...
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51.0K6bostonMarried to a Murderer, H.W. Mudgett
Clara Lovering eloped with 17-year-old Herman Webster Mudgett before a New Hampshire justice of the peace in 1878. She didn’t expect him...
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35.2K3MassachusettsEdward Hammond Clarke and the Chance for Girls
Education was a hot topic in the 1870. How much education should one have and who should get it? Edward Hammond Clarke...
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67.6K16Arts and LeisureI Heard the Bells on Christmas Day — Hope Surfaces from Despair
On Christmas day in 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was inspired to write the poem we now know as the Christmas carol, I...
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34.7K15Business and LaborThe Mad Hatters of Danbury, Conn.
The 19th-century hat factories of Danbury, Conn., made physical wrecks of thousands of workers. They turned them into mad hatters with symptoms...
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