Finally, a book burning story I can’t tag as censorship: In 1905, Grand Island’s (Nebraska) library board ordered a number of the books in its collection, including Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” to be burned.
The reason scarlet fever.
Newspaper reports of a special Saturday night meeting of the Grand Island City Council, library board and Grand Island physicians in March of that year detailed concerns of passing “contagious diseases” such as scarlet fever through the community via library books.
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