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Fire consumes Comanche block. losses reach thousands
A fire at 11 PM Saturday destroyed Mrs. L A Burrows building housing Chas Screws barber shop and spread to W H Chastain drug store and adjacent structures. Burrows insured? none. losses about 3800 for building and contents. Chastain fixtures loss around 1200. Town mobilized to fight the blaze. many residents aided and saved remaining properties.
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Sipe Springs
L. A. Burrows
Chas. Screws
W.H. Chastain
First National Tank
F. EF. Adama
Comanche
Chesteing
Screw
Burrow
Audrey
W H Chastain
Broownwaeod
Lee Morris
Call Platt
Martin Morris
Rising Star
Keifer Anderson
Okra
Prof. Robinson
Courtney
W. D. Edwards
Lila Humphries
Ruby Foster
Fort Worth
Pat Arnold
Abilene
Jim Smith
Jessie Stubblefield
Woodson
la Ville Smith
Breckenridge
Olof South
Mary Minx
Baird
J. D. Eastey
Lucile
J. P. Smith
Joe Lane
Rainey Lane
Wewaka
Okla
Douglas Trice
W. H. Tompkins
J. W. Kelley
Ward
Winlow Jay
F. E. Adams
G. Wyatt
John Smith
Oge
Amity
Ildtween
E. A. Whiteside
Jim Whiteside
M. Stewart
Brownwood
R. A. Stewart
Tom
Wichita Fal
Otis
Claude Chastain
Balls
W. H. Chastain
John Roberts
Sidney
Jay Koonce
Walter Stewart
Bibb
Otis Stewart