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Intro: Joseph Underwood was posting phony appeals for money in 1833. We'll also consider some resurrected yeast and puzzle over a posthumous journey. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of the Radium Girls, a landmark case in labor safety. As time went on, they began to exhibit alarming symptoms, and a struggle ensued to establish the cause. In 1917, a New Jersey company began hiring young women to paint luminous marks on the faces of watches and clocks.
