Emigrant Aid Mill Fire and Local News Era Notes
A 1855 Rural Kansas item reports a near fire at the Emigrant Aid Company mill with wood storage burning, saved by citizens. It urges wind mills as profitable complements where water power is scarce. Other notes cover road work on Learnard avenue, lumber for a new Central school building, city land talks, and a phrenology lecture by Prof. James Calvin Johnston at New Eldridge hall with skull diagrams and brain regions. Compiled by Sarah Parsons.
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