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Show u AS WINTER APPROACHES, HEED THIS ADVICE Promote fire prevention and protect your property and family. Last year over $1,000 worth of property was burned every minute and a life was lost every 35 minutes. Clean property seldom burns do away with rubbish and junk. Careless smokers burned $30,000,000 worth of property last year . Keep matches in metal boxes where children can't reach them. Don't keep ashes in wooden boxes or deposit them against wooden buildings or partitions. Don't change your electric wiring without consulting a competent compe-tent electrician . Don't hang electric light cords on nails. Use metal protection under all stoves and protect woodwork where stoves or furnaces are close to walls. Don't pass stove pipes through ceiling, roofs or wooden partitions. par-titions. Have all flues cleaned, examined and repaired at least once a year . Every, open fireplace should have a screen. Don't connect gas stoves, heaters or hot plates -with rubber hose. Don't use gasoline or benzine to cleanse clothing near an open flame, light or fire . Use noninflammable cleaner. Don't use kerosine, benzine or naphtha in lighting fires or to quicken a slow fire. Don't use liquid polishes near open lights. Many such compounds com-pounds contain volatile inflammable oils. Don't go into closets with lighted matches or candles. Remember that there is always danger in the discarded ciga-. ciga-. ; ft?d cigar stub . |