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Show False Alarms Start Year 0(1 for Firemen Firemen ar riot certain whether the new year ha started auspiciously or not, tor the first three runs save promise of both good and evil, it appeared ap-peared Monday. The initial alarm rang In from box at First West and Seventh South streets at 12:07 a. m. Sunday, while the echo of the New Year bells still resounded through the city. Their spirits keyed to the task of starting the year in the proper manner, man-ner, the firemen dashed to the scene only to discover they hsd been tricked by a false alarm. Another false alarm came In forty minutes later, this time from Fourth East and Seventeenth South streets Quiet reigned from then until 7 p. m. Sunday, when a defective fireplace fire-place at the home ot George 8. Dalg-leish, Dalg-leish, 952 Bryan avenue, started a blaze. Prompt action by the fire de-partment de-partment extinguished the flames without loss. The fire fighters would like to be able to keep all fire losses low, they explained, but the prospect of an-i an-i swering two false alarms to every true fire is not encoursging. |