All posts tagged "Roxbury Mass."
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8.2KBusiness and LaborHenry Vincent Greene – The Soda Jerk Who Made the 20s Roar
Henry Vincent Greene made a simple promise to the hard-working men and women who invested their savings with him. He would “put...
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16.4K5Arts and LeisureSeeing Boston By Streetcar on Film in 1906
Seeing Boston By Streetcar stands as one of the first films of the city ever made. It offers today’s viewer a fascinating glimpse...
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23.3KConnecticutSamuel Danforth, Star-Gazing Puritan, Sees A ‘Herald of wrath to a secure and impenitent World,’ aka, A Comet
When a mighty comet streaked across the night sky in 1664, Samuel Danforth predicted a series of catastrophes for his fellow Puritans...
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8.2K2MassachusettsHow Irish-Catholic Louise Guiney Outwitted Her Protestant Postal Customers
When Irish-Catholic Louise Guiney got the job of postmistress in Auburndale, Mass., the town’s Protestants boycotted her stamps. That created a problem....
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8.3KConnecticutNew England Colonists Thunderstruck by the Lightning Storms of 1768
Terrific lightning storms unsettled New England colonists during the summer of 1768, when rising tensions with Great Britain led to conflict and...
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