Seattle Times, October 5, 1918: 
Spokane Daily Chronicle, October 9, 1918:
Spokane Daily Chronicle, October 8, 1918:
With school closed due to the outbreak, teachers had to find real jobs:
"But every man who disregards the rules should be set down as working to multiple sickness, add his friends' names to the death roll, and extend the closing rule till Christmas time."
The rule lasted past Christmas time:
Nearly a third of all deaths in Spokane in 1918 were influenza related
(Credit to @HistoryLink for that clip, historylink.org/File/20300) The Spokane newspaper clips come from the Google News archive.)
Read this very timely @NickDeshais piece from last year: spokesman.com/stories/2019/j…
Then and now:
The tone in the Chronicle in 1918 was almost optimistic:
The Spokane Daily Chronicle Weighs in Against the Idiotic Guy Who Brags He's Not Scared Of Getting Sick:
Here's the @SpokesmanReview, back in 1918:
Later, they'd editorialize against the Spanish Flu Pandemic version of the Guy Who Gets Bit By A Zombie But Doesn't Tell Anyone.
@SpokesmanReview Spokane Daily Chronicle, election day, November 5, 2018:
@SpokesmanReview *1918, of course.
@SpokesmanReview November 4, 1918: From the day before the election, including an order from a Seattle court allowing whisky to be used to treat influenza, despite the state-wide liquor ban.
