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

History That Doesn't Suck

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🗓️ 20 December 2021

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“Santa can’t fool [me], since the holes in [my] stockings are too big for anything to be put in.” This is the story of Gilded Age giving. Of 30,000 destitute children having a better Christmas because of one man who used his newspaper to connect those who were without to those who had and wanted to give. This is the story of Gilded Age New York’s real life Santa Clause: Joseph Pulitzer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.1	It's a frigid Sunday afternoon, December 20th, 1891.
1:04.9	Nell Nelson and his unidentified girlfriend are walking through New York City's snow-blanketed
1:09.8	streets in an area known as Starvation Alley.
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