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All posts tagged "Leominster Mass."

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Arts and Leisure
A Brief History of the Plastic Pink Flamingo
Don Featherstone made landscape history in 1957 when he designed the plastic pink flamingo for a Leominster, Mass., plastics company. Little did...
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Business and Labor
Johnny Appleseed, The Real Reason He Wandered
Johnny Appleseed wasn’t quite a New England version of St. Francis, wandering the countryside in rags, scattering apple seeds and befriending woodland...
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Business and Labor
The New England Teachers Who Invented New Math in 1788
By 1885 Americans were ready for new math. In 1773, the sixth edition of Thomas Dilworth’s classic Schoolmaster’s Assistant was the dominant...
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Business and Labor
Secrets to a Long Life From Holders of The Boston Post Cane
When the Town of Westmoreland, N.H., gave its Boston Post Cane to 113-year-old Mary Ray in 2008, she was believed to be...
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Business and Labor
Brownie Wise, The Brains Behind Tupperware
In 1950, Earl Tupper was sitting in his Leominster, Mass., office struggling with how to get his business off the ground when...
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Business and Labor
Flashback Video: Leominster Labor Day Parade, 1906
The people of Leominster, Mass., celebrated the 19th national Labor Day in 1906 with a parade down the center of town. (Leominster...

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