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"There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it…a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats."
- Daphne
 

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The Progressives

1890-1920


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Best of the Update!
Stephanie - Watch as the largest oil company crumbles at my feet!

thumb2Daphne - We've got borax! We've got rat feces! We've got America's meat factories!
 

thumb3Stephen - All that and more - say hello to Trekker Stephen!

thumbnail4 Jennifer - A suitcase full of travels! It's Trekker Jennifer!


Dispatch buttonRebecca - How would you like that community? Sunny-side up?
Dispatch buttonMaking A Difference - America's corporate battlefield claims
              another victim: the car consumer

Dispatch buttonStephen - When Americans could live together in solidarity
Dispatch buttonStephanie - Triangle Shirt Factory #9 going up in flames!
Dispatch buttonRebecca - One heroic woman that no one will honor
 

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