[PRCo] Re: PRT 5326 versus the Flu

[Schneider Fred]

Big bucks if there was anyone left to pay the bills!


On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:02 PM, richard allman wrote:

> 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
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>> 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.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2010, at 6:35 PM, richard allman wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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