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All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories

Brief biographies of permanent residents of Laurel Hill East in Philadelphia and Laurel Hill West in Bala Cywnyd, Pennsylvania. Often educational, always entertaining.

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16:32

Jack McFetridge: Super Amateur, So-So Pro

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/04/01

ABC #061 - Part 3 Jack McFetridge was the best amateur pitcher in Philadelphia for years before he went pro. He wasn’t that good.

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17:01

Cub Stricker: A Hot-Tempered Infielder

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/04/01

ABC #061 - Part 2 Cub Stricker was a good fielding 2nd baseman with a hot temper who was arrested on the field to avoid fan rioting when he struck a heckler with a thrown ball.

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25:20

Walter "Slick" Schlichter: Pioneer in Black Baseball

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/04/01

ABC #061 - Part 1 Henry Walter “Slick” Schlichter started as a bantamweight and a boxing promoter who became a sportswriter and then partnered with Black baseball pioneer Sol White to organize the best Negro league team in the country at the turn of the 20th century.

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01:29:44

ABC#061: Play Ball!, Part 3 - Four More Baseball...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/04/01

Henry Walter “Slick” Schlichter started as a bantamweight and a boxing promoter who became a sportswriter and then partnered with Black baseball pioneer Sol White to organize the best Negro league team in the country at the turn of the 20th century. Cub Stricker was a good fielding 2nd baseman with a hot temper who was arrested on the field to avoid fan rioting when he struck a heckler with a thrown ball. Jack McFetridge was the best amateur pitcher in Philadelphia for years; when he finally

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42:51

BBB#030: Grayce Nottage Nicholas - Black Is Beautiful

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/03/14

Grayce Nottage-Nicholas was an older sister of Civil Rights activist C. Delores Tucker, but she made a name for herself as a teacher, parole officer, police detective, and beauty queen at a time when women of color were not welcomed to traditional beauty pageants. In this episode I tell you about the evolution of beauty pageants, how pigmentocracy and straight hair defined beauty from a white perspective, how African American women created their own standards of beauty and started their own

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02:06:12

ABC#060: Three More Women Who Changed Philadelphia

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/03/01

Woman have played a major but underrecognized role in our Nation’s history since its inception. *London-born Esther DeBerdt Reed married a man who became George Washington’s right-hand man and switched her Tory allegiance to become a radial patriot; the organization she founded to provide some relief to the soldiers fighting for her freedom didn’t quite go the way that she had planned. *Elizabeth Duane Gillespie came from a politically active family; she was the chief fundraiser and organizer

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01:20:15

BBB#029: MOVE and Laurel Hill

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/02/16

In 1985, the City of Philadelphia did something unheard of in the United States – it dropped a bomb on one of its neighborhoods. The resulting fire killed 6 adult and 5 child members of a radical primitivist environmental anarchic group called MOVE. The fire spread along Osage Avenue, destroyed more than 60 homes, and left 250 men, women, and children homeless. Former MOVE members are interred in Nature’s Sanctuary, the green natural burial section at Laurel Hill West. Louise Leaphart James and

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36:08

Samuel L Evans: The Godfather of Black Philadelphia...

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/02/01

ABC #059 - Part 3 Samuel L. Evans saw five lynchings before he was 10 years old. Through machinations that people are still pondering, he managed to make himself the “Godfather of Black Philadelphia” despite never being elected to public office. His wake was in City Hall.

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15:05

Winifred "Winnie" Harris: A Perfect Next-Door Neighbor

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/02/01

ABC #059 - Part 2 Winifred Harris was the woman you wanted as your next-door neighbor. She rescued abandoned properties in West Philadelphia and converted them into vegetable gardens for the neighborhood, while planting more than 1000 trees for the city. Her shocking death at the hands of a home intruder was mourned by all who knew her.

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20:42

Sarah A Anderson: Quietly Making Changes

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/02/01

ABC #059 - Part 1 Sarah A. Anderson served 17 years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and quietly changed life for the better for thousands of Pennsylvanians, Black and white.

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01:25:54

ABC#059: Three More Black Pioneers

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/02/01

The Black population of Philadelphia dates to Colonial times but expanded tremendously during the so-called Great Migration that started around 1910.Sarah A. Anderson came from an educated family – her father was the first Black dentist in Florida and her husband was a politically active podiatrist. Sarah served 17 years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and quietly changed life for the better for thousands of Pennsylvanians, Black and white. Samuel L. Evans was also from Florida and

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01:09:00

BBB#028: The Philadelphia Orchestra & Laurel Hill West

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/01/15

The Philadelphia Orchestra has been one of America’s “Big Five” philharmonics for more than a century. As it was being assembled in the late 1890s, it looked like the job of “first conductor” would go to local concertmaster and second generation Irish-American Harry Gordon Thunder, but instead the position went to Johann Friedrich Ludwig “Fritz” Scheel, a German immigrant with seemingly unlimited energies and innovations, but the job probably shortened his life. In contemporary times, the first

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23:30

Robert McNeil: Making Tylenol a Household Name

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/01/01

ABC #058 - Part 5 McNeil Laboratories introduced Tylenol Elixir for Children in 1955, then watched it become one of the best-selling over-the-counter meds of all time.

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10:49

William Warner: Partnering with Lambert

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/01/01

ABC #058 - Part 4 William Warner learned how to sugarcoat pills, making theem far more palatable. Warner’s pharmacopeia was distributed internationally and served as the standard reference for doctors and pharmacists for years.

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15:15

John & Frank Wyeth - Compressing Pills

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/01/01

ABC #058 - Part 3 The Wyeth Brothers invented a machine that standardized the size of pills and tablets. It changed the pharmaceutical industry.

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13:34

Philadelphia College of Pharmacy: In the Beginning

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/01/01

ABC #058 - Part 1 Philadelphia became the pharmaceutical capital of the country primarily because of the College of Pharmacy, which has trained thousands of pharmacists over the past two centuries.

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01:37:31

ABC#058: Laurel Hill & Big Pharma

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2024/01/01

Several multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies got their starts in Philadelphia as neighborhood drug stores. Weightman, Powers, and Rosengarten made their money by selling quinine to the US government. James Smith and Clayton French did not know each and both started as neighborhood druggists; but family and business partners kept their businesses going and their names prominent long after their deaths. The Wyeth Brothers invented a machine that standardized the size of pills and tablets,

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29:51

BONUS: Anna Weightman Penfield and the Fioretta Follies

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/12/27

Anna Weightman Penfield, the only daughter of quinine king William Weightman, became the richest woman in the world when her father died. In 1929 when she was in her 80s, she decided that she wanted to produce a Broadway musical featuring songs by two young friends. She even managed to convince impresario Earl Carroll, the so-called “troubadour of the nude”, to write the book and produce it. He called it “Fioretta”. Carroll used it as a vehicle for his current girlfriend Dorothy Knapp, a chorus

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41:02

BBB#027: An Old Soul Guitarist - Jack Rose

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/12/15

Jack Rose was an old soul guitarist who took John Fahey and other fingerpickers as role models. Born in Virginia in 1971, Rose moved to Philadelphia in 1998, where he became part of the alternative music scene. As he taught himself the primitive styles of Blind Blake, Charlie Patton, and others, he took on the name “Dr. Ragtime”. His album “Raag Manifesto” was named one of the top 50 records of the year by British music magazine “The Wire”. Davendra Banhart included one of his songs in the

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13:36

C Morgan Knight: Death of a Good Samaritan

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories ·

2023/12/05

All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #057 - Murder Most Foul, Part 5 C Morgan Knight was a very successful Chestnut Hill businessman who stopped at Wanamaker's for a quick shopping trip before he headed home after work. He tried to stop a robbery and was shot; his murderer got the chair.

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