Old Home Town – 100 years ago

From the Lawrence Daily World for March 19, 1909: “The measles epidemic which has been raging in Eudora has reached Lawrence. Yesterday several cases were discovered among Lawrence Business College students and the school was ordered closed. The situation here is not regarded as serious so far and there are doubts of an epidemic such as we find at Eudora. School in Eudora may open in a few days after a thorough fumigation … “