Jan. 3—One of the myths that dogged Joplin boosters in the first two decades of the last century was that the city was nothing more than an overgrown mining camp — a transient, flash-in-the-pan town, sure to be abandoned if the lead and zinc mines played out. Boosters looked for all kinds of counters to this myth. The wealth of its residents,...
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