July 27, 2024
Tag: Chicago Sun Times
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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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If you’re a member of the plaid pants brigade and you have tried to engage a Down-Easter in conversation, you may have come face-to-face with conversation that is thin, forced or downright laconic. It is prompted by those from Away. If so, you were the victim of Maine humor. Don’t worry, you have lots of company.