Pages of the past: What the 1918 flu pandemic looked like in Ouray County at the holidays
Editor’s note: With Ouray County and the rest of the world still wrestling with COVID-19 here at the end of the year, we thought it would be interesting to look back at how the county’s forebears handled their own pandemic. We spent some time searching through the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection, a service of the Colorado State Library. Here’s a sampling of the headlines in Ouray County at this time more than a century ago.
The Ouray Herald, December 5, 1918
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