Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 43
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, October 19, 1907
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TWO PERRY BUILDINGS BURNED
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King's Store and Bluhm's Black-
smith Shop--No Insurance.
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       Perry, Texas, Oct. 17.--At two o'clock th(i)s morning fire was discovered (i)n King's store.  The building was quickly consumed and the flames quickly communicated to Bluhm's blacksmith shop which was also destroyed.
       The fire occurred at such an unusual hour that the people were slow in getting out to fight the fire.  Neither party carried insurance on the property.

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