CHRISTMAS IN THE NEWS A CENTURY AGO
Blog post by Randi Richardson Few people today have any memory of Christmas Eve from a century ago, December 24, 1918. What we do know of that day is from the local newspaper, Bloomington Evening World. Unlike Bloomington newspapers today that typically consist of four sections with local, national and international news, sports and ads,
A MONTH IN THE YEAR OF A FLU EPIDEMIC IN MONROE COUNTY
Blog post by Randi Richardson From January 1918 through December 1920, five hundred million people around the world were infected with the flu which resulted in the deaths of somewhere between three to five percent of the world’s population. Many of those who died were soldiers. During the month of October, 1918, the number of
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