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The Montgomery Advertiser reported the initial cases of Spanish flu in Alabama’s capital city in October 1918. The State Board of Health issued a quarantine, telling working women “not to report for work where there is a case of influenza in the family.” By November, with twenty-three new cases, the state board of health called the conditions “grave.”

Six years later in Marshall, Texas in 1924, Bob Jones, Sr. bragged about how he persevered through the flu pandemic in 1918.

I remember when the flu was down our way. All our folks at home were sick. Could not get help at any price. I was the first one able to get about. I kept house for a week. Cook? Did it for a week; made the beds, swept the carpets and everything, and believe me things were done right.

Naturally, Jones would never do things wrong. When his neighbors and hired staff were wiped in a pandemic, he rose from his sick bed to conquer dirt and hunger.

What a guy!

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