Children Playing With Matches Destroy Barn

Ohio, 1919
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NEARBY HAPPENINGS

Barn Destroyed by Fire as Result of Children Playing With Matches.

Children of E. A. Meredith, left alone at home while the parents visited in Lima played with matches and set fire to the barn, which was destroyed along with a big silo and huge straw stack. The loss is about $4,000.
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An insane woman claiming to be the "Princess of Windsor" chased a number of farmers, near Bluffton, Ind., with a shot gun which the posse did not know was unloaded until, she was finally captured. Her identity is unknown, but she also talks about being a May Stegdill.
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The Delphos fire department was called to the home of Henry Metzger, an automobile having taken fire. The machine is the property of Mr. Metzger's son, Clarence. The machine was not ruined.

--The Van Wert Daily Bulletin, Van Wert, Ohio, September 9, 1919, page 3.