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Ask an American to picture the Old West and, somewhere in the montage, a lone rider will be galloping flat-out across an empty plain with a leather mail pouch,…
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Boston has its molasses; London has its beer. On an autumn afternoon in 1814, in one of the poorest districts of the world's richest city, a wall of porter…
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Imagine a restaurant that worked like this: you walked into a marble-and-chrome hall, changed a dollar into nickels at a booth staffed by a woman who could throw exact…
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Every American kitchen once contained a box that told the truth about summer: keeping anything cold required somebody, somewhere, to have harvested winter itself — sawed it from a…
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Somewhere in your town — possibly on your street, possibly under your own roof — there's a good chance a house arrived by train. Not the lumber for a…
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Before urgent care visits and streaming on demand, a child's ordinary sick day, the sniffles, a low fever, an upset stomach, was handled entirely at home by a well-rehearsed…