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Aqua Pura A Kansas Boomtown's Rise and Fall
A western Kansas town Aqua Pura, founded in 1886 by Harvard Princeton and state university alumni, prospers with schools and hotels before droughts and failed loans erase its glow. Barringer, its stubborn mayor, stays through droughts, bank losses, and a dying town, keeping lonely vigil on a deserted hotel porch as rain never comes.
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Kansas
Gaul
New York
Pennsylvania
Johnson and Barringer
Harvard
Nichols
Princeton
Bemis
Bradley
Hicks
Vassar
Aqua Pura
Barringer
Fountain County
Board of County Commissioners
Larringer
Johnson
Aqua Para
Bar
Ringer
Mary
Ife
Manilla
Mr. Barringer