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103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund

History That Doesn't Suck

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The Evening World Christmas Tree Fund

The evening world christmas tree fund provides gifts for tens of thousands of children. This year, they're setting up seven christmas trees in halls from jersey city to brooklyn,. From harlem to right here, carnegie hall in manhattan. There are over 12 thousand dolls alone, reportedly robed in a manner to make the fifth avenue dressmakers envious. And by the time nell nelson walks through starvation out in a few years, this fun will alreadyAac it's about seven a m on a gray and foggy christmas day 18 91. Wore at the famed steel industrialist andrew car Carnegie's new music hall on the corner of 50 eth street

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