All posts tagged "insurance"
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19.5K7Crime and ScandalThe Festive Murder Trial of Jessie Costello
In the summer of 1933, the murder trial of a brassy Peabody, Mass., housewife named Jessie Costello captured the world’s attention. Festive...
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8.9K7Business and LaborRules for Living From an Old Massachusetts Farmer
Jared David Busby was a 78-year-old Massachusetts farmer who had the solution to ending the Great Depression: Work. So he told his...
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10.2K7ConnecticutHurricane Diane, 1st $1 Billion Hurricane, Wallops New England in 1955
Hurricane Diane might not have caused so much damage had Hurricane Connie not struck a few days earlier. But Hurricane Diane was...
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13.8K13Business and LaborMaine Twins Invent the Stanley Steamer, Climb Mt. Washington
Freelan O. Stanley and his wife Flora climbed Mt. Washington in a Stanley Steamer on Aug. 31, 1899, in one of the...
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9.5K15MassachusettsFrances Perkins Works for God, FDR and the Common Workingman
Frances Perkins was having tea with her friend, Mrs. Gordon Norris, in New York City, on the afternoon of March 25, 1911, when...
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17.5K4Arts and LeisureThe Liberated Wife Who Really Was Wonder Woman
Elizabeth Holloway Marston was one-half of the inspiration for Wonder Woman, the superheroine who first appeared in comic books the month Pearl...
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