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Fire on Dunrobin Avenue

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"Firemen yesterday morning fighting a blaze in a building on Dunrobin Avenue which houses a garment factory. The early morning fire gutted the building, and was eventually put out by men and units from the Half Way Tree Fire Brigade."

Tenement building fire

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"GUTTED: This is all that was left of this room, one of the many in the tenement building at 77 Waltham Park Road that was completely destroyed by fire Saturday night."

Men look at crocodile

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"THREE AGAINST ONE: Pictured with the eight-foot crocodile which they killed Sunday in the Port Royal area are [from left] Errol Lee, Rupert "Peter" Knight and Henrick Lee Loo. Peter told the Daily News that his two companions were spear-fishing in…

K.P.H. morgue (outside)

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"At right: Outside the KPH morgue yesterday, hospital workers and onlookers mill about after orderly James Wilson was officially pronounced dead - for the second time."

Geoff Boycott of England

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"England's main run-getter opener, Geoff Boycott, hooks for four in his unfinished innings of 83. He later got a nasty blow on the left forearm from Jamaica and West Indies pacer Uton Dowe, when he left a ball alone outside the off stump. The ball…

Errol Brown, Jamaican cricketer

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Jamaican cricketer, Errol Brown, photographed during cricket practice.

Percival Burge, amputee

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"A NEW LEG FOR PERCIVAL BURGE - and one made by his friend "Shoey" Betram Squire. Mr. Burge lost one of his legs two years ago but couldn't afford to buy an artificial one. Mr. Squire, shoemaker-saddler and upholsterer of Bath decided to make him one…

Magnum Wheeler's Brian Bill

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"ONE FOR MAGNUM: Magnum Wheelers' Brian Brill is a long way home ahead of Falcon's Eustace Green to take the 'A' class Unknown event at the Jamaica Amateur Cycling Association League meet at the National Stadium Friday night."

David Burgess plays football

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"OVER THE MOON - Cavalier's striker David Burgess leaps over Mobile's Michael Vassell during one of his last minute moves to put Cavalier back in good stead during Major League action at the National Stadium yesterday. Mobile won 2-1."

Theophilus Branch, cricketer

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"Boys' Town Junior Cup captain Theophilus Branch receives the Junior Cup from Ivan Heron, treasurer of the West Indies Cricket Board of Control at the annual prize-giving function yesterday at Sabina Park."