[PRCo] Re: PRT 5326 versus the Flu

[richard allman]

it was bad here, apparently. My grandfather dropped out of mortician school 
a year before and missed his chance for the big bucks!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:51 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRT 5326 versus the Flu


> It would be interesting to see death rates as a percentage of the
> population of all sorts of areas in the nation.   I get the feeling
> that Philadelphia was one of the worst places in 1918.
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> On Jan 20, 2010, at 6:35 PM, richard allman wrote:
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>> and how did that compare to your experience w/ the Great Flu of
>> 1917-18?
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "BobDietrich" <bob.dietrich1 at verizon.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:23 AM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRT 5326 versus the Flu
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>>> I do believe that Derrick is the exception in this group. Most of
>>> us were
>>> around for the last swine flu (was it in the mid '50s?) so we are
>>> immune.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf
>>> Of Dennis
>>> Fred Cramer
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:43 AM
>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org; Nancy McCombe; Lybarger Ed;
>>> Bruce
>>> Wells; Becker Scott
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRT 5326 versus the Flu
>>>
>>> I managed to survive not getting H1N1 when IUP was nearly shut
>>> down last
>>> fall.
>>> Call it luck.
>>>
>>> My Uncle Fred died from the flu in 1926 at the age of 1.5.  Most
>>> of us
>>> probably have a direct relative that succumbed to the disease.
>>> Getting
>>> this
>>>
>>> back on topic, the Cramer's lived in West Penn territory during
>>> the first
>>> 3
>>> decades of the 20th century.  Between 1900 and 1915 their children
>>> were
>>> born
>>>
>>> in Calumet, Uniontown, Hecla, Humbert, Isabella and Boswell.  Poor
>>> coal
>>> miners moved a lot in those days.  They eventually migrated to
>>> Lincoln
>>> Hill
>>> and then finally to Washington during WWII.
>>>
>>>
>>>          Dennis F. Cramer
>>> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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