PUBLISHER’S NEWS LETTER
Publisher’s News Letter
The year after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad received its Charter, 1828, the School Board of Lancaster, Ohio, was asked to allow the use of the schoolhouse for a debate on whether or not railroads were practicable. The answer was: “We welcome the use of the schoolroom to debate all proper questions in, but such things as railroads and telegraphs are impossibilities and a rank infidelity.
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