In order to not have heat dry out tobacco leaves so they were not rolling around the cigar the air had to be kept very humid in these factories so the windows were nailed shut in summertime so the breeze wouldnt blow the humidity out. Very fine tobacco dust filled the air and filled the lungs of people working in these places. Cigar workers had the second highest rate of tuberculosis of any occupation in the United States. Only stonecutters had it worse. Rose would have lung problems for the rest of her life. When she was 21 years old something happened that changed the course of her life. She saw a copy of the you dish newspaper published in new york, the jewish daily news. The paper ran one page in english and invited contributions from readers around the country. It was a new york paper that was trying to go national and said wherever you are send us your stories, write us letters, tell us what is going on in your life and rose began writing, they gave her an advice column just betw
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Hello, everyone. Can anyone hear me . Sounds good here awesome. Thank you all for coming out tonight and supporting your local independent and Employee Owned bookstore. [applause] before we begin tonight speaking with Holly Jackson, american radicals, to mention other Great Program it coming up later this week we have romance writer here with boston globe love letters columnists Meredith Goldstein on thursday. Next week on tuesday we are hosting former poet laureate Robert Pinsky along with a few contributors for the new anthology, the mind. Next wednesday where hosting nancy for the atlas of boston history. We have many more events coming up and you can find more information on our website and in the brochures by the registers when to pick up your copy of the book tonight. Tonight were so glad to be hosting Holly Jackson for her new book american radicals how nineteenthcentury counterculture shaped the nation. Book page magazine calls the book magnificent saying this incisive and well
President of the United States is the president of the United States. He can do whatever he wish and he is not accountable to me or anybody in this room. Renault shares fall to the bottom of the 600 as reports emerge that nissan is gearing up for a potential divorce. The pound falls below 1. 30 against the dollar after the bank of Monetary Policy Committee Says he would vote for a rates cut if there is no improvement in the uk Economic Data welcome to the show, everyone the most Senior Commander of irans revolutionary guard was called to a closed session of parliament after tehran admitted it mistakenly shot down a Ukraine International Airlines Passenger plane. There were no immediate details asked of the official but iran blamed its air Defense System for the crash, which killed 176 people the announcement has sparked protests across iran and protesters have called for the resignation of iran saying they tried to cover up involvement in the crash. Dan is in abu dhabi. What a differen
After 10 am in San Francisco 3 pm in sao paulo 9 at night here in moscow this thursday january 16th welcome to our to International Community. Russia has a new Prime Minister lawmakers approved. Of the sea early thursday with president putin then signing off on the appointment. Well it only took this country what was it slightly more than 24 hours to come from the point when the president proposed to tweak some elements of russias constitution which by the way didnt automatically mean that the cabinet would have to step down to a moving towards the point when the russian state duma approved the name of the countrys new Prime Minister that is mikhail so the result was 383. 00 votes in favor about 40 abstentions and 0 votes again so this is the kind of backing the and coming Prime Minister is getting which is very important obviously in his position and clearly we were listening to his speech right before the vote which was obviously filled with quite a few promises so here are some of t