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Surgeon General’s Office Tells How To Make the Influenza Germ Die of Loneliness

Washington, Oct. 11.—“What is Spanish influenza ?”

Army Medical Department officers on duty at the Surgeon General’s Office when asked this question the other day pointed out that the disease known as “Spanish Influenza ” is identical with influenza and that the prefix “Spanish” came to be used on the supposition that it had started in Spain this year.

The symptoms of influenza are, a severe headache, pains in the bones and muscles, especially in the back and legs; marked prostration; fever running as high as 104; sometimes nausea; also a seeming sore throat. There is a little running from the nose and eyes and some sneezing and coughing.

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Reading aloud is one of those exercises which combine mental and muscular effort, and hence has a double advantage.

To read aloud well, a person should not only understand the subject, but should hear his own voice, and feel within him that every syllable was distinctly enunciated, while there is an instinct presiding which modulates the voice to the number and distance of the hearers. Every public speaker ought to be able to tell whether he is distinctly heard by the farthest auditor in the room; if he is not, it is from a want of proper judgment and observation.

Reading aloud helps to develop the lungs just as singing does, if properly performed. The effect is to induce the drawing of a long breath every once in a while, oftener and deeper than of reading without enunciating. These deep inhalations never fail to develop the capacity of the lungs in direct proportion to their practice.

The Christian Recorder was first published in 1854 under the editorship of the Rev. J.P. Campbell. This early edition was short-lived, however, and in 1861, under the editorship of Elisha Weaver, the New Series, Volume 1 began. Under this new leadership the Recorder was introduced into the South by distribution among the negro regiments in the Union army. Benjamin T. Tanner became editor in 1867, and was followed in that position in 1885 by the Rev. Benjamin F. Lee who served until 1892.

The Christian Recorder embodied secular as well as religious material, and included good coverage of the black regiments together with the major incidents of the Civil War. The four-page weekly contained such departments as Religious Intelligence, Domestic News, General Items, Foreign News, Obituaries, Marriages, Notices and Advertisements.

After the war, this nationally distributed weekly paper contained hundreds and hundreds of personal ads like the ones below under the heading of Information Wanted.

December 26, 1863: Can any person inform me of the whereabouts of Miss Rebecca Dowden, of Philadelphia, formerly of Baltimore, Md. She has been residing in Philadelphia. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Field, died in Woodstown, N.J., about three years ago. Her daughter, Harried Dowden, is deceased. The estate of the parties is to be settled, and the presence of Elizabeth Dowden is necessary. Any information concerning her can be left in Montcalm street with Mr. Alexander Toscos, or at No. 619 Pine Street. (Signed,) Mrs. Mary Dowden, Baltimore, Md.

January 2, 1864: Can any one inform me of the whereabouts of Miss Susan Onely, who came from Virginia, in the year 1847, to the City of Philadelphia, Pa., and was raised principally by a Quaker family, by the name of Willets, who reside on the corner of 5th and Callowhill Sts., Phila. The last account we heard of her, was, that she had gone somewhere in the State to live. Any information of her whereabouts will be thankfully received by her brother, John E. Onely, No. 33 Chapel St., Brooklyn, L.I., or at the office of the Christian Recorder, 619, Pine Street, Philadelphia.

Malvern, PA (February 11, 2020) – Accessible Archives, Inc., a digital publisher of full-text primary source historical collections, announces the release of  Part VII: The 19th Amendment Victory: A Newspaper History, 1762-1922 to its Women’s Suffrage Collection. This collection documents how generations of Women fought for the right to vote.

The ratification of this amendment on August 18, 1920 was a long and arduous undertaking which started during the revolutionary period when American colonists were fighting against lack of representation in government.

The first half of the 19^th century found strong women, a sizable number now educated, running businesses, moving across the country as pioneers, participating in reform movements and making their voices heard.

Follow the issues leading up to the 1848 Seneca Falls convention organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Delve into newspaper articles documenting how the anti-slavery movement fed into the suffrage movement. You can read those divergent arguments which motivated leading crusaders like Margaret Fuller, the Grimke sisters, Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone.

Learn firsthand how the Civil War, Reconstruction, voting demands in the 1870s, and World War I all contributed to women’s and America’s victory.

The 19^th Amendment collection begins with newspaper articles from the 1760s and concludes with those surrounding legal victory in the 1920s. Accessible Archives has carefully uncovered over 18,000 articles from of its rich historical archive not previously included in the Suffrage Collection to bring you this exceptional compilation in one searchable database.

According to Iris Hanney, President, Unlimited Priorities, “We are delighted to bring out this collection that further documents how the vote for Women evolved.”

The 19^th Amendment Victory: A Newspaper History, 1762-1922 joins Accessible Archives’ line-up of Women’s Suffrage Collection titles as Part VII:

• Part I: The Lily, 1849-1856
• Part II: National Citizen and Ballot Box, 1878-1881
• Part III: The Revolution, 1868-1872
• Part IV: The New Citizen, 1909-1912; The Western Woman Voter, 1911-1913
• Part V: The Remonstrance, 1890-1913
• Part VI: The National Tribune: A Women’s Suffrage and Temperance Journal, 1870-1872

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(The Colored American/February 3, 1838) The conduct of General Jesup (see note) in decoying the Indians within his power by means of “the flag of truce,” and then sending them to a dungeon, is in the highest degree abominable. It must and certainly will bring down the indignation of heaven. It is not enough that the solemn treaties made with the poor red man, by which their lands were guaranteed, are ruthlessly violated, and the Indians, by the white man’s rapacity, driven far away from the graves of their fathers.

But now TREACHERY is added to COVENANT BREAKING. The doctrine that MIGHT MAKES RIGHT is practiced again. What a miserable wretch this called General Jesup must be, deliberately to plan such treachery upon the poor unsuspecting Indian.