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103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund
103: A Gilded Age Christmas: Joseph Pulitzer’s Christmas Tree Fund
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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Dec 20, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
“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.
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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.
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Released:
Dec 20, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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