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The Octopus and Its Grandchildren

by Rebecca Solnit,

When an 1882 cartoon in San Francisco’s Wasp newspaper depicted the Southern Pacific Railroad as an octopus with the whole state of California in its far-reaching tentacles, it launched an…

“Would Miss Tarbell see Mr. Rogers?”

by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell,