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...Greene, Me., a fire occurred on the farm of John Sawyer. Firemen failed to save three buildings, used up all their water. Then they filled their pump with barrels of Farmer Sawyer's vinegar, squirted it at a fourth building, saved...
...Chancellor of the British Exchequer Philip Snowden and the other august delegates to The Hague Conference who were squabbling in the old Dutch Senate Building, the medieval Binnenhof. About 10 p. m. the shivering correspondents in the courtyard had tried to make a bonfire of newspapers. Scandalized Dutch firemen had rushed to put out the cheerful blaze, then tidily swept up the mess. After that it was just dogged waiting...
...Arthur Conan Doyle was sitting in his garden near Southampton, England, with his family (wife, two sons, a daughter), when flames suddenly burst from the roof of his house. For an hour, local firemen, 100 villagers and the Doyles labored to save books and manuscripts. An old part of the house was consumed, a new addition saved. No Sherlock Holmes was needed to detect the cause: a spark on the old dry roof...
...town, known to modern Turks as the pest section, straggles down from the summit of the rock to the bleak modern city at its base. Up the rock now, as the Ghazi gazed, leaped crackling flames, lighting up the plain. For hours the Ghazi worked shoulder to shoulder with firemen, policemen, soldiers. The acrid smoke of burning buildings mingled with the smell of burning fish. By morning it was seen that fire had gutted 500 houses, one hotel, three khans (caravansaries) and a mosque. Since meat, vegetables, almost all food is sold in the "Fish Bazaar," Angora suffered a serious...