John Miller's son burns down shop, New Home, Tex., 1933
St. Charles (Kane County, Illinois) Chronicle, Sept. 14, 1933. Four Buildings Lost in Hunt for Lost Canary. New Home, Texas -- A pet canary got lost, starting a chain of circumstances which resulted in destruction by fire of four buildings here. The small son of John Miller, desirous of finding the canary, lit a match and peered behind a hot water tank in his father's barber shop. The match set fire to cobwebs, which in turn ignited some waste. The blaze extended throughout the shop, finally consuming it, together with three adjacent buildings. (Posted as a courtesy - not related. This appears to have been a fill story for this Illinois newspaper.)