The way Germans did it / The way North Carolinians do it
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The Health Bulletin (Raleigh: North Carolina State Board of Health) 34:10 (October, 1919).
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- October 1919
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- North Carolina in the early 20th century: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the first decades of the twentieth century (1900–1929). Topics include changes in technology and transportation, Progressive Era reforms, World War I, women's suffrage, Jim Crow and African American life, the cultural changes of the 1920s, labor and labor unrest, and the Gastonia stirke of 1929. (Page 3.13)
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A pair of cartoons from the State Health Bulletin in October 1919 warns North Carolinians of how influenza is spread. The first, showing a man gunning down a soldier with a machine gun, is captioned “The way the Germans did it at Chateau-Thierry: During the recent war approximately 1000 men from North Carolina were killed in battle.” The second, showing a man coughing into a crowd, is captioned “The way North Carolinians do it at home: During the epidemic last fall and winter 13,644 North Carolinians laid down their lives to a ’spit-borne’ disease — influenza!”
