December 15, 2025
Tag: Flu 1918
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The Lost Summer with Sandra Cobb
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In the early spring of 1950 signs like this one started to appear in the front windows or on the front doors of homes across America. This one from Connecticut and ones like it appeared as warnings that a quarantine was in affect designed to prevent the spread of polio. Postcard History’s guest contributor, Sandy…
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November 3, 2021 2 Comments
Breakfast food is mostly loved, but among those who live lives in despair of early rising, breakfast is never fun. Perhaps that is why so many breakfast food companies advertise using happy sunrise morning scenes and smiling faces. Quaker Oats, a product as popular today as it was in 1911 keeps smiling. It would probably make the world a happier place if we smiled too!