The Girl Puzzle
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#otd 1885, Nellie Bly’s first byline
“Mad Marriages” was the title of Elizabeth Cochrane’s second article for The Pittsburg Dispatch. Marriage and…
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#otd 1885 – The Girl Puzzle is published
On January 25th, 1885, The Pittsburg Dispatch published its first article by a new employee. In…
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#otd Looking for the “Lonely Orphan Girl”
On Saturday January 17th, 1885, George Madden and Erasmus Wilson of the Pittsburg Dispatch decided to…
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#otd The Nellie Bly story begins…
On January 14th, 1885, The Pittsburg Dispatch (yes, Pittsburgh was Pittsburg back then) published a column…
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Dec 11th: The Suffragents by Brooke Kroeger
“The story of how and why a group of prominent and influential men in New York…
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Dec 3rd: Ten restaurants that shaped America by Paul Freedman
“Combining a historian’s rigor with a foodie ’s palate, Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how…
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