These are the Good New Days

Nothing sells like bad news. According to the mass media, the sky is always falling.   I recently read a book set in the early 1900s; the stories and the photos of that era always bring about craving for simpler times. But the early 20th century, though simplistically appealing, was also terribly primitive compared with today.   The early 1900s was an era of tuberculosis, typhoid, sanitariums, child labor, child death, horses, horse...

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