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...Founder John Alexander Dowie, in which the Passion Play was being performed every Sunday. To his horror, black smoke "in five different and widely separated places" was billowing out of the Tabernacle and Overseer Voliva later said he heard 15 explosions. Zion's head theocrat frantically summoned firemen. Le Roy Peacy, the salesman who was Christus in the Passion Play, rescued his costume, but the building burned quickly, set fire to the Church's adjacent broadcasting station, lay in ruins before Zion and Waukegan firemen could do much about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Passion in Ashes | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Brave Firemen Sirs: Re: Your issue Feb. 22, Business &Finance- "Fireman's Fund," p. 83. San Francisco acquired its first paid Fire Department on Dec. 3, 1866 at which time the Volunteer Department ceased to exist after 16 years of service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 15, 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. was organized in 1863, its first office being in the Montgomery Block, built in 1853 and still standing, being one of the very few pioneer buildings in San Francisco which have survived the march of time. We have a record of 16 brave firemen killed in the line of duty during the period of the Volunteer Fire Department. They evidently did more than breaking windows and throwing slung shots. ALBERT EDWARD CONLON Vice President Historical Society of the San Francisco Fire Dept. San Francisco, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 15, 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Mail box and shower room fires have recently adorned the records of the Cambridge Fire Department, but firemen agreed that it was a now one on them yesterday afternoon in Brattle Square when they were called upon to extinguish cribs, baby carriages, bed-pots, and other articles of infant paraphernalia in a truck whose exterior was inaptly labelled "Beer and Wine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE REVEALS LIQUOR TRUCK SMUGGLING BABY CARRIAGES | 3/12/1937 | See Source »

...firemen, gleefully tearing down walls and ceiling, were packed into the tiny room from which the smoke poured. Meanwhile, co-operative Crimson stalwarts helped pull hoses up to the roof of the building. Their ardor was some-what dampened when boisterous fire-fighters above, testing a hose, directed the stream of water at the undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indomitable Conflagration Breaks Out Twice in Building in Harvard Square | 3/2/1937 | See Source »

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