Fires and general mayhem dominated the April news in days gone by

Time Flies  Dayhoff: Fires and general mayhem dominated the April news in days gone by:

 

“Fires captured the attention of the local newspapers in April many years ago. The American Sentinel reported on April 9, 1898 that a “large coal oil lamp, suspended from the ceiling of the office of Dr. John S. Mathias, this city, broke loose on Wednesday night, fell, exploded and the oil caught fire…”

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