In Chicago, the navy moved forward to fight fake news conspiracies, and could do so more readily because they were deemed to be “enemy-conceived yarn”

1918 was also an election year.  The paper reported a list of nominations from the following political parties: Republican, Democratic, Socialist, Prohibition, and the Social Labor Party.

In Rochester, there were 373 new cases and a total of 10,076 cases. There were 28 deaths from influenza, with a total of 347 deaths in the City. There were 8 deaths from lobar pneumonia, contributing to a total of 98 persons dying from pneumonia. There was 1 death from bronchial pneumonia. The youngest were: 4-month-old Bogdan Givinski; 11- month-old, Saverio Lucchese; and 1-year-old Nicola Naeca, and Mafaldo Borelli, and Edna Repp.

A new emergency hospital was opened at the Gannett House.

Salonkeepers and Hotel Men were ordered to stay closed their barrooms.

A 47-year-old man, Fred Ernst, who was “despondent because of a severe attack of influenza” attempted suicide in his room in a house where he boarded by turning on the gas. The other boarders smelling the gas burst open the door and saved him.

Schoolboys were beginning to return from the various farms where they had been working.

Members of the Monroe County Home Defense were ordered to the Red Cross Headquarters to work as drivers and to provide other services.

A home at 141 South Fitzhugh Street was turned into a children’s emergency home for children whose families were temporarily unable to take care of them due to the illness. The home opened that day and there were already about a dozen children in the house. One story told involved two children 5 and 7 who nurses found when their parents were too ill to take care of them. The staid during the day with a policewoman who brought them to the home that evening.

 

 

© words by Daniel DeMarle 5/12/2020