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As Cornelius was still involved with Home Mutual Fire Insurance, one might initially suspect some malfeasance in this second woolly conflagration, but seeing as how the claim nearly sent the insurer into bankruptcy, the suspicion seems ill founded. Also, the mill was assuredly financially solvent given testaments to the quality of its products. When tiie place burned, a local citizen, Hugh Miller, is said to have remarked, “Thank God that old mill burned. I’m tirgd of wearing pants that never wear out.” Ifmm before the days of planned obsolescence, one might say.
Potential fraud aside, fire and structural collapse were and are the great enemies of these mighty old edifices. Apparently claims for mill “ills’ must have been rather commonplace in the late 1800s, for when the Smith’s operation on the
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