December 15, 2025
Tag: December 30 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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December 23, 2021 3 Comments
When the wealthy needed relief from the summer heat and big city odors In the decades following the Civil War, they turned to the seashore and mountain resorts in New England. The Poland Spring House in Poland Spring, Maine, was among the favored sites for family holidays. By the late-’50s, new travel options caused a sharp decline in business and like other resorts across America Poland Spring House closed in the 1960s. Then, it was gone!