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Spanish Influenza, Jan. 3, 1919

July 13, 2020

Though sensitive people are still using safeguards against influenza, and there is still an undetermined amount of lingering illness remaining from the long siege, it appears by today, Jan. 3, that the period of terror from the epidemic has passed in Sheridan.According to local druggists, Vick’s Vaporub can be effective in treating influenza. Influenza itself has a very low percentage of fatalities, the chief danger arising from complications in patients who are in a run-down condition.Word was received today that Lester Osborne Jr., who was editor of the Cheyenne State Leader for several months in 1917, died of the influenza in his apartment in Denver.

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