Utah Stories from the Beehive Archive Podcast | Toll of Unemployment: the Suicide of Mary Cook

The nationwide depression of the 1890s produced unprecedented levels of unemployment. One unfortunate casualty of the resulting stress and anxiety was Mary Cook, a young mother from Utah County.

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