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This is a rooster teeth production. Warning, this episode contains subject matter that may be considered graphic.

Listeners be advised.

During the 1920s, more than 50 women factory workers died as a direct result of radium paint poisoning.

Those women were known as the radium girls.

Welcome to 30 Morbid Minutes.

Yeah. girls. Welcome to 30 Morbid Minutes. This is the podcast where we explore topics of a morbid, macab, dark, and downright

grisly nature.

Sometimes topics like today's that might just make us a little bit upset.

I'm Elise Willems.

And I'm Jessica Vasami.

What would you do with the flying month remaining of life if the doctor told you that you were dying, that there was no escaped, that though you might be going out about your affairs

today as usual, nothing could be done to save you. Would these soft May days the last May you might

ever see find you panic-struck and helpless with horror? Or would you greet each spring morning

with courageous determination to make the most of what was left.

These were the questions so poetically asked to readers of the Evening Star newspaper on May 13,

1928. The headline read, five women dying of radium poison. In 1927, all five of the women in this headline had been employed by the U.S. Radium Corporation as dial painters.

Catherine Shob was one of them. And on May 27, 1928, her face made the front page of the New York Daily News under the headline, doomed to die.

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