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Ten Thousand Dollar Fire at Princeton
A morning blaze in Princeton destroyed three houses and their contents, totaling about ten thousand dollars. The fire started in L. W. Gore’s four room grocery and spread rapidly to adjacent Gore property, a Syrian restaurant and store, a barber shop, and M. F. Kent’s grocery building. Residents in J. A. Thompson’s boarding house jumped from upper windows as the fire worsened. one woman also leaped to safety. No serious injuries were reported though several were bruised. Firemen and bystanders tried to halt the flames as a strong wind threatened nearby structures near the depot.
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