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Real Fire-proof Buildings

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
March
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Japanese appear to have hit upon the expedtent of providing flre-proof storehouses for the reception of fumiture and otlier valuables. As a Becuwty against the vast. connagrations wllioli, during the winter months, are so pr xvlent in Japan, the most perishable and valuable avtioles are kejit in fire-prooi Ktorehonso.s kuown as "mud godcrwns.' These stl'Uotureg are Imilt of mud, or, to speak move oorreotly, of olay. A. doublé frainework of bamboo or sligb.t boarding is run hp, and the biterwniug epact, abi)1lt t'if'hteeii juchen or two feit ui.lt. is tlllecl in witii mud, wliieh i graduallj i apoked and allowed to dry by tlie action I of the atmosphere. Ata graat rire wliich I occurred at Tokio on the 29th of ber and raged for ciglit hours, destroying nearly 10,000 hottseê and m immense nmount of property, nötoneof tlie " mud godffwns" - and thore vere seS'eral hnndreds of tbem - was injured througliout the entire area of froni five to six miles in estnt laid waste Vy tlie conflagration.

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Old News
Michigan Argus