An Electrifying Encounter at the Drug Store
A Seattlite's bonnet catches fire, leading to a rather unconventional rescue by an observant clerk.
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Miss Celia Childs, of Seattle, was surprised, to say the least, when somebody dashed a bucket of water in her face as she was standing in a drug store. A banging cigar lighter had touched off the inflammable forest of millinery surmounting her bonnet, and an excited clerk adopted that mode of extinguishing her.
“Miss Celia Childs, of Seattle, was surprised, to say the least, when somebody dashed a bucket of water in her face.”
While millinery fires are a thing of the past, the unpredictable drama of downtown urban retail remains a constant feature of life in Seattle's rapidly shifting districts.
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