Media+Regarding+the+Conflict

Below are authentic newspaper articles, propaganda, and other such various components regarding this conflict. Though we wish we could provide audio and/or video from the actual time frame of the conflict, such technological capabilities were non-existant or did not survive to this day, a century later.

If you look to the upper left of this newspaper form September 23, 1918, you can see a headline article regarding the Spanish Flu and its impact in this town. Actually, this claims this claims that 'Influenza is under control at Great Lakes.' As they entered the Winter months and the Second Wave of the Spanish Flu, the author of the article would eat his words as the flu spread all across the nation, including the Great Lakes. 

This publication is similar to the others. They metion the latest town happening, run a few ads, and all lay name to the results of the Spanish Flu. In this case, officers are urging the use of masks. As previously mentioned, only a month before they were declaring the situation 'under control.' Seems the second wave of the Spanish Flu is knocking of the city limits of this Wisconsin town. 

Below is another newspaper article that mentions the Spanish Flu, along with various other events that are interesting pieces of history today, though they were daily life for the citizens of Wausau, Wisconsin in 1918. In the lower middle portion of the newspaper, an article is written discussing the death of a Congressman due to the Spanish Flu. The middle class and militants were not the only ones to suffer the effects. 

Below is another various article about the Spanish Flu of 1918. In the top- middle of the page, notice where it mentions a university being free of the flu. Again, this would only prove to 'shoot in the foot,' so to say, as the Winter of 1918 set in and the Second wave spread around the globe. 

This particular newspaper below is one of several of a collection of arhcives from a town in Wisconsin. In this edition, a warning is addressed to all employees regarding the Spanish Flu. It is evident that the media, even though only paper and print, played a large role in keeping the townspeople informed. 