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Hero’s Family Needs Help

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Laura Aanenson

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Charities of the past worked in much the same way they do today. In the October 20, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News, a Bishop asks the public to help the family of a man who died saving children from a fire:

CDN 1894 10-20 pg 1 snip

The next two stories could also have taken place today, couldn’t they?

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