September 22, 2026
Tag: fire proof buildings
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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 12, 2021 2 Comments
The Salvation Army serves mankind in many ways and we are grateful for their devotion. A Christian Mission group in London became known as the Salvation Army in 1878. A year later a young girl named Eliza Shirley came to American and settled in Philadelphia. Today the nearly two-million members work around the world. This postcard tells about two of them.