Transcribed by: Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT

Thirty-First Year - Number 48

Marlin, Texas, Friday, June 28, 1931

SMOKE RESULTS IN FIRE ALARM WHEN MOTOR STICKS

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Attention of Night Policeman Attracted and Damage Confined to Machine.

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Smoke resulting from a motor becoming stuck in an electric refrigerating machine at the Marlin Market & Grocery store on Live Oak street resulted in an alarm being turned in to the Marlin fire department at 1:15 o'clock this morning.

Attentino of Ben Taylor, night policeman, was reported attracted by the smoke and firemen were called to the scene.

Damage was confined to the motor, it was stated.

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