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It is generally believed that the 1918 flu epidemic infected 500 million people. The actual death toll is unknown but thought to be between 40 and 50 million. Our country was tangled up in WWI and this deadly flu killed as many of our young men and boys in the service as those that fell on the battlefields. President Wilson was "begged" to take actions such as limiting large gatherings and other emergency measures to help control the spread of this debilitating disease. He wouldn't even do a press release about it for fear of our German enemies learning how hard we had been hit by this deadly flu. And there was politics in 1918 too.
Read moreHome Improvements I was visiting with my younger son this weekend and we talked about the modernimprovements we had been promised for our future. Yes, we saw the “wonder-car”
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Read moreOf Cabbages and Kings Last Saturday our Sooner football team and many thousands of Sooner fans made the drive down to the Dallas Cotton Bowl. The big arena has been expanded through the years and they say it can seat 96,100 Oklahoma-Texas football fans. Pat and I made the trip down with many of our family members again this year but the big walk in and out of the stadium has become a little tough so we stayed in a B&B and like most of you watched the big annual event on TV. And it was truly something to watch as OU managed in the last ticks of the clock to wham our Texas friends, 34-30.
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