The town of Ottawa, Ill., is banding together to honor the memories of watch dial painters who were poisoned by a radium paint in the town during the 1920s and 1930s. Piller’s father, William, is a ...
In 1922, an exciting new opportunity came to the women of Ottawa, Illinois. The Radium Dial Company opened a factory and began hiring well-paid female employees by the dozen. Their job was to paint ...
Jean Anne Gregorzek owns a small clock that glows with luminescent paint. It doesn’t tick, but she keeps it on her dresser anyway, to remember the grandmother she never met. Quinta Maggia McDonald ...
Set in the 1920's when little was known about the effects of radioactive substances, "Radium Girls" is a story of how negligence and prejudice can lead to tragedy. The dial painters slowly realized ...
WILLIMANTIC — The Burton Leavitt Theatre will transform into the 1920s when “Radium Girls” takes the stage for its first performance Friday. The play, written by D.W. Gregory, tells the story of Grace ...
They painted glow-in-the-dark watch dials at the U.S. Radium factory in Orange. Then their teeth began to fall out. The 1920s story of the “Radium Girls" of New Jersey is coming to the big screen in ...
A century ago, radium in scant quantities was thought to be healthful. People sipped it diluted in water and applied makeup made with it. They consumed milk and butter laced with it and brushed their ...
On New Year's Eve a few minutes before midnight I finished reading the book, "Deadly Glow -- The Radium Dial Worker Tragedy," by Ross Mullner. Minutes later as people in Peru, Ill., began celebrating, ...
WILLMAR — The Ridgewater College Theatre presents “Radium Girls” by D.W. Gregory at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3-5 on the Willmar campus. In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international ...
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