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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 334

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door, with a slot at the left-hand side, and at the top of this slot a hookprojecting. By pulling down this hook once andreleasing it, we set at work certain clockworkmechanism inside, and this sends in the alarm.When the first officer arriving at a fire dis-covers that it is of enough importance… … KEYLESS BOX, OUTSIDE. cial apparatus that he mayneed. The inspectors ofboxes can also carry onconversation in the[orse alphabet with:he operator at head-quarters onthis key andsounder. Let us ex-amine thecauses thatled to thesending inof an alarmfrom box— e.-r.M- 357,andalsowhat follows the…

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