Tag: December 30 1903

  • The Iroquois Theatre Fire

    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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Past Article

Ray Hahn
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Once again the calendar has presented us with a fifth Sunday, which is Postcard History’s prompt to present three histories of three unrelated postcards. This time the topics are a candy advertisement, a long forgotten stage personality, and salt – yes, plain old salt. Happy Fifth Sunday!

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