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100 years ago today, fire broke out this morning in the apartment building at 80 Carroll Street. The fire started under the stairs on the second floor and swept up the stairway, trapping seven people on the fourth floor. Firemen were able to rescue six of them by ladders, but one man was seriously injured when he jumped from the fourth floor.

The school at Union Center was closed today for two weeks, as a precaution against a smallpox epidemic.

The South Side Fire Station at Johnson City has been used for the last month as a detention area for people suspected of being exposed to smallpox.

Finally, letters have been sent to families and friends of the 2,800 patients at Binghamton State Hospital, asking them to remember their friends at the hospital with gifts for the season.

And that was the news 100 years ago.