All posts tagged "railroads"
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8.9K4Crime and ScandalFortunate Son: The Madness of John Stark
For nearly 200 years, from the beginnings of the nation, the Stark name, beginning with John Stark, was the gold standard of...
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9.3K1Arts and LeisureThe Journeys of English Jack: From London Slums to the Top of the White Mountains
John Alfred Vials – better known as English Jack or the Hermit of the White Mountains – was a fixture for decades...
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11.9K13Crime and ScandalThe Halifax Explosion – One Sketchy Plea for Help, and Massachusetts Goes the Limit
On the morning of December 6, 1917, a curious telegraph arrived at the offices of Hornblower & Weeks, a Boston investment banking...
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17.2KCrime and ScandalFrederick Small Commits the Imperfect Murder of 1916
Frederick Small, an awful little man, thought of himself as an astute businessman. He wasn’t. An abusive husband, he thought he committed...
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13.0KPolitics and MilitaryAmbrose Burnside, The Sideburned Civil War Commander Who Didn’t Want The Job
When Ambrose Burnside received his orders to take command of the Army of the Potomac in November of 1862, it was said...
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45.2K32MassachusettsThe Orphan Train and the Children Who Rode It
In 1926, a four-year-old orphan named Lorraine Williams and 13 other children were scrubbed, dressed in new clothes and put onto an...
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