[Magdalen] Book I am now reading

[Dorothy Collman]

Our September selection for my church's Ladies Literary Fellowship is "Radium Girls" by Kate Moore. It tells the story of the young women who worked painting clock faces in the early 20th century and were fatally poisoned by the radium in the paint.

<https://www.sourcebooks.com/radium-girls.html>

When I was living in Watford I took a pottery class at the local technical college. The instructor told us not to eat, drink or smoke in the classroom because of the possibility of getting some of the chemicals into our mouths. The raw glazes contained lead, tin, cobalt, et al. Toxic, but not radioactive.

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> On Jul 29, 2019, at 10:28 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> Someone was rummaging through some old storage areas of the\local Wilkes-Barre City Hall and found four 9' diameter clock faces in a cubbyhole  there.
> It was determined that they were from the Luzerne County Court Housewhich had a tall clock tower and clock complete with bells to mark thehours.  That court house building had been raised and the site made
> into a public square in 1909.  The innards of the clock, made of iron andsteel were melted down in 1942 for the WW-2 effort.
> Court houses in general in Pennsylvania tend to rival many state capitolbuildings, and are the source of much pride.  The new Luzerne CountyCourt House is domed with four wings, and has a very impressiveinterior not unlike the PA Capitol building down the road at Harrisburg.
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