All posts tagged "telegraph"
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11.3K9Business and LaborBridgeport Women Workers and the Birth of the Eight Hour Day
On one summer day in 1915, thousands of women walked off the job in Bridgeport, Conn., demanding the eight hour day and...
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3.4KHistoric TailsThe Cat Who Ran the NH Summer Camp
On this date in 1935, Nellie T. Hendrick was preparing to step down from the post she held for 20 years as...
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43.4K14MaineThe Greatest Submarine Rescue Ever: Saving the Squalus
On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the storm-tossed surface of the Atlantic on a sea...
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