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nesses.TIMELY RAIN STOPPEDSiin t | AmiI jectir PROMISING FOREST FIRE j “libr;E gralt;Freeport, 111., Nov. 7.—While farmers were fighting desperately last gre night to stay the progress of a forest) six fire in the township of Clarnb, WisM | The just across the Illinois state line, ajtion heavy rainstorm, the first in six j nati vreeks, broke and within half an hourChagonthe flames had been checked.Before the rain came farmers had i Pari plowed furrows around four acres of ingt timber lands in which fire was rag- and ing and had cut down many trees u,lfQ that were ablaze.It is believed hunters who made a “smudge” to smoke a squirrel out of its hiding caused the blaze.awaceiv:
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Monmouth Review Atlas
Monmouth, Illinois, US
Fri, Nov 07, 1924
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