Word: effingham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Effingham, Ill. (pop. 8,000), they will never forget the fire that, one April night in 1949, burned St. Anthony's Hospital to the ground, and took 75 lives. "Last week they were reminded of the tragedy by a fact as hopeful as a phoenix...
...committee, none of them Catholics. With the help of such groups as Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions and the American Legion, they launched an appeal for funds that reached out all over the U.S. They mined every possible source for prospects; anybody who had signed the register at Effingham's hotel for the past five or six years got a letter. More than 100,000 letters went...