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

History That Doesn't Suck

CHAPTER

The Christmas Tree

The children have been waiting patiently here at carnagi hall. A small orchestra plays delightfully on stage, though it's doubtful whether the musicians can be heard over the excited children letting out exclamations of pure joy. For these thousands of impoverished kids so often passed by during the liday season, all this is proof that santa hasn't forgotten about them. One little girl, nanny, is absolutely excited as they hand her a huge box. But when she opens it, the smile and sunshine in this poor girl's face begin to fade. The workers ask, don't you like it, nanny? She replies with sadness in her voice, that she doesn’t

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