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Scoring two goals and an assist in Saturday's Yale slaughter Captain George Ford wound up his undergraduate hockey days in a blaze of glory and ran his point total of his four years of collegiate competition...
...second fire broke out in a type-writer-renting office directly below the room that was the scene of the afternoon's blaze. Chief Herman E. Gutheim, head of the Cambridge forces, said that the same defective chimney caused both fires...
...flames six times between 1849 and 1851 with a total property loss of about $20,000,000. San Francisco gentlemen then organized volunteer fire brigades whose uniforms outdazzled those of the Vigilantes and whose members fought freely for the privilege of breaking the first window at a blaze. For twelve years these fraternities added to the excitement of a city where it was noted that "a man cannot walk home of an evening without his head being round all quarters at once, on the lookout for a slung shot." In 1862 San Francisco acquired its first paid fire department...
...conflagration of the Crystal Palace last week sent towering 500 feet in air a column of flame seen by rustics in eight counties round about and was called the biggest London blaze since the historic "Great Fire" of 1666. One of 90 fire engines which struggled vainly to save the Exhibition Hall accidentally soused His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, the youngest son of Queen Mary, who was nicknamed by playfellows at school as "The Scent Bottle." In last week's unreeling of an Empire crisis, sleek, scented Kent was most of the time an orchidaceous extra waiting...
...Francisco, winding up a mediocre season in a blaze of intersectional glory, St. Mary's came from behind to beat Temple...