103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund
History That Doesn't Suck
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Christmas Day in New York
Nell reports one final story of children getting gifts from the evening world, that of a young african american girl named lea. The workers find this small child being comforted by her mother in a corner of the room. It seems that lea received a pink and yellow jack in the box, but she finds it terrifying. Well, this will never do. Te take little lea to harriet and ask what can be done Harriet turns back to the tree and produces for lea a tennis net, a doll, a toy, lamb and a rooster as well as a christmas bell. And so the gift giving goes all day long, bringing joy and laughter to
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