It is strange how such nonsense gets propogated! I had an uncle die of the flu and my father remembered it well. No one knew what caused it. Viruses hadn't been discovered then. Influenza was a mystery. Gene Stackhouse "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not."Stephen Wright >From: "Vincent E. Summers" <vsummers@gmail.com> >Reply-To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Phly-Rts] Spanish Influenza >Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:06:11 -0400 > >The Spanish Influenza... > >You can't believe everything you hear, but you can repeat it, >and present it as a possibility... > >I have heard that the No Spitting signs in Philadelphia (or >you get fined $50) originated because of the SI. > >Anyone know if that is true? > >It must not have been considered correct to attribute deaths >to the Spanish Influenza back then. > >Vince > > >********* >Visit the threaded archives of this list: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS >********* > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

That sounds logical, Gene. Vince On 4/21/07, Eugene Stackhouse <genestackhouse@msn.com> wrote: > It is strange how such nonsense gets propogated! > I had an uncle die of the flu and my father remembered it well. No one knew > what caused it. Viruses hadn't been discovered then. Influenza was a > mystery. > > Gene Stackhouse > "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not."Stephen > Wright > > >From: "Vincent E. Summers" <vsummers@gmail.com> > >Reply-To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com > >To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [Phly-Rts] Spanish Influenza > >Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:06:11 -0400 > > > >The Spanish Influenza... > > > >You can't believe everything you hear, but you can repeat it, > >and present it as a possibility... > > > >I have heard that the No Spitting signs in Philadelphia (or > >you get fined $50) originated because of the SI. > > > >Anyone know if that is true? > > > >It must not have been considered correct to attribute deaths > >to the Spanish Influenza back then. > > > >Vince > > > > > >********* > >Visit the threaded archives of this list: > >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > >********* > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >