October 14, 2024
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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November 14, 2021 2 Comments
It is often the case that an ordinary postcard poses the most complex question. Literally, a message from an uncle in the first port of call off the high seas to his nephew in the port city of Plymouth, England, became a mystery of identities. And, it remains unsolved. This reminds us that there are no answers to some questions.