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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1903
Page
4
Tomorrow the new Broadway school building will be dedicated with ceremonies and a public reception by the city school teachers for citizens to inspect the model structure. The program will proceed with one exception and Mr Louis Hoff man will give an address in place of Charles E Yeater who cannot attend.
The 1893 disaster at the theater, where 562 to 591 people died or were missing, left bodies in undertaker rooms and hospitals as fire officials worked through gas explosions and a collapsed asbestos curtain. Fire officials say many died of gas suffocation and trampling. The audience fled to left doors, with mass deaths at balcony entrances and across stairways. Eddie Foy and the company escaped with minor injuries.
Reported attempts to smuggle tobacco and human hair were thwarted at Manila customs with seizures at No 88 Calle Alix Sampaloc and across arrivals from Yamato Maru and Hongkong Maru. Hair weighed seven kilos valued as luxury hair paid five dollars per kilo, while tobacco hidden in personal baggage faced duty avoidance plans.
A local wedding tale from Green Ridge reports William Lumstrum wed Miss Fannie Wadleigh with Rev. E E Reed officiating at the couple’s residence. The item sits among notes of illness deaths and holiday visits, including the funeral of E M Phillips and relatives from Waxahachie and Newton.
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