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Cha

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3. Mahalo canetoad... my paternal

Reply to canetoad (Original post)

Mon Dec 7, 2020, 02:25 AM

Dec 2020

grandfather who was young died in 1919 from the Pandemic Flu.

He was working in a small town on the Eastern Plains in Colorado at a train stattion.

We're thinking he may have gotten it from Soldiers traveling through the town.

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Compilation of 1918 Chicago Newspaper headlines [View all] canetoad Dec 2020 OP

Saloons exempt?? Frasier Balzov Dec 2020 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author demosincebirth Dec 2020 #6

That is very interesting. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2020 #2

Mahalo canetoad... my paternal Cha Dec 2020 #3

Soldiers traveling by train were probably the biggest spreaders captain queeg Dec 2020 #4

Yeah, Poor things. My dad Cha Dec 2020 #5

Soldiers and sailors Freddie Dec 2020 #12

Everything I've read says it started at Fort Riley in Kansas and spread from there Bengus81 Dec 2020 #14

Yes Freddie Dec 2020 #15

Hey Cha canetoad Dec 2020 #7

Aloha, canetoad.. Cha Dec 2020 #8

Draft Men SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2020 #9

Open face sneezers to be arrested Blues Heron Dec 2020 #10

Open face sneezers to be arrested Meowmee Dec 2020 #11

Jeebus. And we have learned nothing. nt babylonsister Dec 2020 #13

100,000 doses of vaccine on the way scipan Dec 2020 #16

Great post malaise Dec 2020 #17