VMVTEUR DETECTIVE AND FIRE BUG. Fired by t he exploits of Conan Doyle’s hero, a Christchurch Sherlock Holmes set out on lhe trail to discover the Fire Bug in that city. Alas! he found that Fact is considerably different sometimes frolii Fiction, and his Fire Bug ir vestigations were of no avail. Yet. this amateur deetective got on the clue of one important cause of several fires. That clue was Edgeworth—smoked in many pipes. Every day in this city there are many thousands of fires —of Edgeworth tobacco burning sweetly in coinitless pipes—giving endless satisfaction to complacent men. Such tires ■■ive police and insurance managers no alarm. In fact, many of them are creating these sweetly burning tires themsel v es. —AdvL
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 53, 26 November 1929, Page 12
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122Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 53, 26 November 1929, Page 12
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