The District’s Old Post Office extracted a steep toll on the men who built it – Washington Post


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The District's Old Post Office extracted a steep toll on the men who built it
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Less than two weeks later, the Post Office claimed its next victim: Peter Nelson, a 26-year-old from Chicago who had been on the job for a week. A three-ton block of granite was being moved by a swinging derrick to its position inside the Post Office's

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