All posts tagged "Peabody"
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8.6K12MassachusettsAbraham Lincoln Responds to the Little People’s Petition From Concord, Mass.
The little people’s petition was signed by 195 children in Concord, Mass., asking President Lincoln to free all slave children. When Lincoln...
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19.8K51MassachusettsThe Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965
At dusk on Nov. 9, 1965, 11-year-old Jay Hounsell was walking down the road in Conway, N.H. He was on his way...
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18.0K7Crime 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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15.9K6Business and LaborMilton Bradley and Life’s Checkered Past
In 1860, Milton Bradley decided America needed a new game, and so he created a modern blend of the old-fashioned morality games...
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10.8K14Crime and ScandalThe Short, Wild Life of Harry Crosby, Publisher of Jazz Age Geniuses
After Harry Crosby was nearly killed in World War I, he vowed to live fast and die young. His success scandalized Boston...
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9.9K9MassachusettsRose Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Daughter, Becomes Candidate for Catholic Saint
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the youngest daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a candidate for something the Puritans abhorred: Catholic sainthood. She was born...
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