July 11, 2025
Tag: 1903
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The Iroquois Theatre Fire
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Chicago, December 30, 1903. Fire, smoke and chaos caused by fear, killed over six hundred soles today at the new Iroquois Theatre on Randolph Street. That’s the way the lead story in the Chicago Sun-Times began on the morning of December 31, 1903. A grusome story of death and suffering that need not have happened.…
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November 11, 2021 1 Comment
Chautauqua passed with the passage of time. It still happens, but it is much different. A fact that for many is a disappointment beyond description. If you are reading Postcard History, you are certainly interested in learning. From the 1870s and decades to come, Chautauqua was one way to learn beyond your formal education.