William Firth Wells and Mildred Weeks Wells

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Husband-and-wife team William Firth Wells and Mildred Weeks Wells conducted research that had the potential to make a big difference in the safety of indoor air. But it didn’t really have a significant impact on public health.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:16.1	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:19.5	And I'm Holly Fry.
0:22.6	Before we start our episode today,
0:29.2	a couple of folks have asked us where they can buy shirts and things, because we used to have a t-shirt store.
0:39.8	Yeah. And then it went away. And the reason for that is just that IHeart Radio moved. They were already with a different t-shirt vendor than we had been with when IHeart acquired us.
0:43.2	And so eventually we needed to all be on the same thing.
0:47.1	So our t-shirt store now is at Cotton Bureau.com.
0:52.8	You can either go to Cotton Bureau.com and search for stuff you missed in
0:56.8	history class, or you can go to Cotton Bureau.com slash people slash stuff you missed in history class
1:05.5	with each of those words separated by a dash. Personally, it seems easier to me to just go to cottonbure.com and use
1:13.3	search function, but you do you. Right now we have coffee mugs, tote bags, cell phone cases,
1:21.7	stickers and t-shirts. Our prior t-shirt vendor was the creator of a lot of our previous
1:27.2	t-shirt designs.
1:28.2	So right now what we've got is stuff with our logo on it, but in the future, we may have some other designs also.
1:35.3	We're kind of working on that behind the scenes.
1:37.5	Just wanted to let everybody know in case you either have looked for a shirt recently or have just wondered, do they have t-shirts and stuff?
1:44.9	Now we do.
1:45.8	Again, cotton bureau.com.
1:49.3	And now we can start the episode.
1:51.7	A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to an episode of the podcast, 99% Invisible,
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