All posts tagged "newspapers"
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1.1K7Business 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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3.7KbostonHugh Manity, Depression-Era Love Cult Leader, Caught in the Garish Grip of the Law
Boston’s own love-cult leader, Dr. Hugh Manity, gave New England’s newspapers plenty of fodder in 1933 when he was arrested in his...
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7.2K9bostonThe Almanac, Indispensable Day Planner for the Busy Colonist
When John Winthrop set foot on the shores of Salem in 1630, he carried with him an out-of-date almanac that belonged to...
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14.1K6Religion and Social Movements The Great Connecticut Polygamy Crisis of 1903
By 1903, New Haven Congregational minister Henry Learned Hutchins had spent years traveling about Connecticut on behalf of the Connecticut Bible Society,...
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4.2K1Arts and LeisureConnecticut’s John Rodemeyer Invents the Bald Head Club of America – For His Own Amusement
In 1883, 25-year old John Rodemeyer of Canaan, Connecticut was smitten with young Jenny Brown. But when she opted to marry the...
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22.1K1Arts and LeisureA Short History of Scrabble (and Some Fun Scrabble Facts)
Starting in 1938, every single giant toymaker in the United States rejected Alfred Butts’ idea for a new word game. All, that...
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