All posts tagged "labor"
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8697Business and LaborMaine’s Duchess of Dix Island and The Rise and Fall of The Great Granite Ring
The story of the Duchess of Dix Island begins with a bad investment. In 1839 Horace Beals became a partner in the...
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4.5K8bostonJohn Alfred Poor Takes a Sleigh Ride, Steals a Railroad
In February 1845, John Alfred Poor made an epic five-day dash through a blizzard in the White Mountains to snatch a railroad...
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15.6K6Business and LaborThe Brunswick Children Strike the Cabot Mill
In the summer of 1881, eight-year-old children working in a Brunswick, Maine, textile mill found out eight-year-old children working in a Lewiston,...
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14.1K3MassachusettsMr. Marconi Builds a Radio Station on Cape Cod and Comes to the Rescue of the Titanic
On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic...
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52.6KBusiness and LaborArt Young – Connecticut Cartoonist for Truth, Justice and the Working Man
A century ago, Connecticut’s Art Young was a radical political cartoonist, and many of his drawings would be as relevant today as...
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13.6K32MassachusettsSam Adams Walked Into a Tavern and Started a Revolution
Sam Adams was a devout Puritan who brought his religious convictions to the fight for American liberty. That did not mean he...
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