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Spanish Influenza, Jan. 16, 1919

The funeral of Mrs. J. J. Waddell was held at Reed’s chapel this morning, Jan. 16. Only the most intimate friends of the family were present owing to death being due to influenza. Mrs. Waddell died at Alliance, Neb., but she was a former resident of Sheridan.Three cases of influenza, all in one family, were …

July 16, 2020

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Spanish Influenza, Jan. 10, 1919

The Sheridan newspaper reported today, Jan. 10, that across Wyoming, the flu situation showed a marked improvement during December. At the beginning of the month, there were nearly 1,500 cases, and at the close, 97. The situation was reported well in hand everywhere except in the Jackson Hole country, where a lack of doctors proves …

July 15, 2020

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Spanish Influenza, Jan. 8, 1919

Statistics of births and deaths in Sheridan county, released today, Jan. 8, by County Health Officer Hurd, show the tragic story of the flu epidemic here. These disclose a natural increase in the birth rate of 48, but a frightful bulge in the death rate during October and November, the months in which Spanish influenza …

July 14, 2020

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Spanish Influenza, Jan. 4, 1919

It’s reported today, Jan. 4, that a number of mothers widowed by the influenza epidemic in Sheridan are seeking employment, but they are having difficulty because they’re encumbered by their children.The flu epidemic has disarranged the year’s schedule for schools in Sheridan, and there has been much inquiry as to when the children newly arrived

July 13, 2020

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Spanish Influenza, Jan. 3, 1919

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

July 13, 2020

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Spanish Influenza, Jan. 1, 1919

R. E. Sundean, the new Sheridan insurance impressario, has been laid up with influenza at the Sheridan Inn since a few days before Christmas, but he was able to get out again today, New Year’s Day 1919.Word has been sent from the president of the State Teachers’ association that the association meeting to have been …

July 13, 2020

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Spanish Influenza, Dec. 30, 1918

Sheridan’s city council adopted the annual appropriation today, Dec. 30, but did not include a provision proposed by E. E. Lonabaugh for converting the big house on Grinnell, being used as an emergency hospital, into a city and county hospital.While in most of Wyoming, the influenza situation is showing improvement, in three parts of the …

July 10, 2020

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Spanish Influenza, Dec. 28, 1918

The report today, Dec. 28, is that there is still a great deal of influenza in Sheridan, attested by the considerable overturn in school attendance attributable to the malady. The schools have been favored, however, in that since they reopened, there has been little sickness among the teaching force. More than 20 of the teachers …

July 9, 2020

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Spanish Influenza, Dec. 27, 1918

The Sheridan Enterprise reported today, Dec. 27, that Lloyd Jennings Garretson, 4-year-old son of H. E. Garretson of Clearmont, died at the family home Wednesday morning. It was only a week ago that the child’s mother died from influenza, leaving all of the children and the husband suffering critically from the malady. Mr. Garretson has …

July 8, 2020

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Spanish Influenza, Dec. 26, 1918

No new cases of influenza were reported to County Health Officer Hurd on either Christmas day or the previous day, but one was reported this morning, Dec. 26. The reports suggest that either there is little spread of the malady or the physicians are neglecting a duty enjoined by the state health regulations.Clyde C. King, …

July 7, 2020

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