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HOUSE FIRE

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11/20

16:07 #053744 HOUSE FIRE *PARKERSBURG RD NW / NATIONAL HWY NW* POSSIBLE ENTRAPMENT BOX:F1619 DUE:E162 E171 E181 E152 E91 TR16 TR2 SQ16 A35

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On This Day in FFD History

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ON THIS DAY IN FROSTBURG/FFD HISTORY

Cumberland Evening Times - November 20, 1936.

Old Frostburg Opera House Burns

Landmark Seventy Years Old Is Destroyed

The second fire in the business section this week completely destroyed the old Frostburg Opera House at the corner of Main and Depot Streets early this morning. The alarm was sent in about 2 a.m. by Russell Carter of Grahamtown and by 2:30 the building was a mass of flames.

Said to have been a spectacular fire, fed by grain stored in the basement and huge virgin white pine girders, melted the copper roof providing a fireworks-like display lasting most of the night. A four-story brick structure, it was owned by Mrs. Joseph H. Hitchens and for years housed the largest motion picture theater in the city. Recently, it had

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MVC

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11/20

01:34 #053662 MVC PD *NEW HOPE RD NW / DEPOT RD* BOX:F1605 DUE:CO16

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