Teach your children well.
Milk; Tobacco; Shirley Temple; the Mayflower; dogface; the Constitution; child soldiers; Civil War field hospitals
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Brenda Elthon
1. The milk that killed babies: a story of greed and corruption in an era of unregulated capitalism.
In the mid 1800s, New York City overflowed with poor immigrant families.
Most had many children and mothers who worked in family businesses to help support them.
Pressing financial needs made extended periods away from work for breast feeding …