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| 11851 | “Flu” Cuts Store Hours Page 1 Flue Now Nation-Wide Disease Reported Epidemic In Practically Every Part of County. On Increase At Army Camps 13,605 New Cases Reported, With 820 Additional Deaths – Malady Reaches South America. Washington, Oct. 9. – Spanish influenza now has spread to practically every part of the country. Reports today to the Public Health Service showed the disease is epidemic in many Western and Pacific Coast States as well as in almost all regions east of the Mississippi river. Its spread also continued in Army camps, the number of new cases report being greater than on the day before. [story continues at length] Page 16 “Flu Cuts Story Hours Dr. Blake Order Them to Open After 9:30 an Close at 4:30. 81 Die In City: 1,525 New Cases 75 Die At Meade, With 455 New Cases – 15 Expire At McHenry. Health Commissioner Blake moved rapidly yesterday in adopting further measures to check the spread of Spanish influenza and pneumonia, which show no signs of abatement. Late in the afternoon he issued a general order directing that department store, retail stores and specialty shops open not earlier than 9:30 o’clock in the morning and close not later than 4:30 in the afternoon. (continued on page 6) Page 6 (continued from page 1) from this source. The number of new pneumonia cases yesterday was 289, the lowest since Saturday. Fifteen Marylanders. There were fifteen Marylanders in the list, six of whom were Baltimoreans. The Baltimoreans were: [list including ] Harvey L. Hedges, Walkersville. The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland. Thursday, 10 October 1918. | Hedges, Harvey Lycurgus (I62)
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| 11852 | “The Third Swedish Expedition to New Sweden. The following names of persons, who embarked in Sweden, in 1641, for the colony of New Sweden, area obtained from copies of lists, preserved in the Royal Archives at Stockholm, in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, on of which comprising thirty-three individuals:” [LKH NOTE: the list includes:] “Olof Persson Stille, of Penningsby Manor, Liinna Parish, Orslagen, a millwright, to engage in agriculture, paid at the start 50 daler, copper money, drawing no additional wages, but to be paid for whatever work he does for, and for whatever he furnishes to, the Company; accompanied by his wife and two children, one seven, the other one and a half years old. He is not mentioned in the List of 1644, but his place of residence in 1655 is indicated on Lindatrom’s Map. In 1658, and subsequently, he was one of the magistrates on the Delaware. He was still living in July, 1684, when he obtained confirmation of a grant of land in Passyunk, in Philadelphia County, Pa., (ceded to him June 3, 1664, by d’Hinojossa, the Dutch Governor on “South River,”) but died before May, 1693, leaving as heir on only son, John Stille, born in American in 1646, the ancestor of a well-known Philadelphia family.” From Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819: A consolidation of ship passenger lists from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Edited by Michael Tepper, 1979. Pages 1-3. LKH note: The other passenger included: A lieutenant with his wife, a maid and a little child; a priest; a young nobleman a burgomaster’s son who was also an adventurer; a tailor, formerly a lieutenant to engage in agriculture; a gunner for the new fort and to engage in agriculture accompanied by his wife; the gunner’s brother to cultivate tobacco; three men who became sailors; wood-sawyer; a carpenter; a Dutchman who made tobacco-casks; a miller; some to serve as soldiers; several who are listed as servants and laborers for agriculture and to cultivate tobacco who would gain the status of freemen by 1648. | Stille, Olof Persson (I5687)
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