#367 The Ice Craze: How the Ice Business Transformed New York
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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The Ice Box in New York
By the mid nineteenth century, ice is a thing. It's like a new craze in new york. In workshops, composing rooms, counting houses, workmen, printers, clerks club to have their daily supply of ice. Even in new York, there are a number of families who ice their croton drinking water. But in excess, as in the use of intoxicating liquors, will, in al probability, produced diarrhoea. I'm going to take us into some of those meat markets and fruit sellers gregg and into people's ice boxes themselves in just a minute.
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