Alaina Urquhart

Now, as Molly was dying in New Jersey, hundreds of girls in Ottawa, Illinois, started lining up for what were promised to be glamorous jobs as painters at the Radium Dial Company.

Like U.S.

Radium, the Radium Dial Company produced luminescent clock and watch faces using the same lip-pointing technique as the girls in New Jersey.

Oh, no.

It's not like we have social media where everyone's going to blast out what the fuck's happening in New Jersey over here.

So now over in Illinois, they have no fucking clue.

Yeah.

And despite the employment ad's stated goal of hiring several girls 18 years or over, many of the painters at Radium Dial were under 18, some as young as 11 years old.

And do you think what that's going to do to an 11-year-old?

You have no chance.

Not at that point.

None.

Like the girls at U.S.

Radium, the new painters at Radium Dial quickly became, you know, local celebrities in Ottawa, making the job and...

making radium seem very glamorous.

According to one local paper, the girls were the envy of the others in the little Illinois town when they stepped out with their boyfriends at night, their dresses and hats, and sometimes even their hands and faces, aglow with the phosphorescence of the luminous paint.

Like, that sounds awesome.

Like, anybody would be like, holy shit, I want to sparkle for my job.

Yeah.

However, unlike U.S.