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Depositories for Ashes Greatest Negligence

Event date: Nov 24, 1855

The annual meeting of the Brattleboro Fire Society was held at the Revere House on Tuesday evening, 20th inst. The report of the Wardens for the past year was made, from which it appeared that very generally the stoves, furnaces, flues, fireboards, &c., were in safe condition. The greatest degree of negligence was in the depositories for ashes, wooden vessels being used in many places instead of those made of mineral or metal.

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