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...fragility of most of these clothes make them fancy dress only "The only time we do much business with young people is for proms and weddings," says Mary DiCicco of Atalanta She says that the store's most popular clothes continue to be white summer dresses from the 1900s...
...home of Lechmere's Point, where the British landed to begin the march to Lexington and Concord, parts of East Cambridge have become industrial wastelands, leading one city official to compare the area to "an underutilized warehouse." After an industrial peak in the early 1900s, many large manufacturers left East Cambridge, taking jobs and other residents with them...
Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy tells the fascinating story of this transformation, how Blacks broke down the doors of the exclusive club that was major league baseball pre-1948. Starting with the segregation of the early 1900s, Jules Tygiel delves into the evolution of the Negro Leagues, ranges into the famous Robinson break-through with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and finishes up with a detailed a count of the ensuing full integration of the sport, and the bringing up of "Pumpsie" Green in 1959 to the Red Sox, the last bastion of lily whiteness...
Boyd began his career in the early 1900s, selling typewriters. He later opened an office-supply business in Muskegon, Mich., and was that city's first Ford dealer. In 1928 he invested in the Mount Forest Fur Farms of America, which raised muskrats. The company went bankrupt in 1931. He helped reorganize the failed firm as Vermilion Bay, and the company struck it rich when oil and gas were later discovered on the Louisiana muskrat farm. Vermilion now collects royalties on 60,000 acres of land in Louisiana. Last year the company had profits of $1.6 million on sales...
...only have the tools at the doctor's disposal changed, but so has the doctor-patient relationship. In the early 1900s, a doctor was primarily a comforter, someone who stayed at the side of the patient and tried to guide him through his illness. More than anything, the doctor's function was the "laying on of hands," the handling and touching of the patient in an effort to provide much needed attention...