See If You Can Guess the Date of These Headlines from the Seattle Daily Times

Help Bar Deadly Influenza from Seattle

CHURCHES, SCHOOLS CLOSED

Epidemic Puts Ban on All Public Assemblies

Seattle to Make Fight on the Disease

Police Ordered to Close Public Places

Guess the Date of These Headlines.

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Here's some more front page headlines to give you a clue:


Only One-Half of City's Quota for Loan Subscribed

Blast Shatters Dozens of Towns in New Jersey

New Wage Scale in Shipyards to Run from August 1

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These might help even some more:

Americans and French Smash Foe

U.S. Troops Smash Huns in Argonne

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The date of the newspaper is October 5, 1918.  The so-called Spanish Flu Pandemic was going on as well as World War I.  Today we have the COVID-19 Pandemic and Black Lives Matter.

--Cooter

SS Tuscania-- Part 4: A Mount St. Helens Connection

One of the military men on the Tuscania was Harry Randall Truman who died in the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington State.  He was a member of the 100th Aero squadron.  He survived the sinking and because of his audacious and independent nature, received several injuries while serving in Europe.

Despite warnings of the impending eruption of the volcano, Truman refused to go to safety and remained at his Mount. St. Helens Lodge on Spirit Lake and died in the eruption.

Reading the account of him in Wikipedia he was quite a character.

--Cooter