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Blog: Romance in the 1880s

Red Cross nurses at Fort Riley, Kansas
In March of 1918, the first confirmed cases of Spanish Flu in the United States were identified at Fort Riley. By March 11th, 107 soldiers had been diagnosed with the sickness. This photograph shows Red Cross nurses at Fort Riley, Kansas. Frances C. Schopper, a registered nurse, is third from the left.
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Selected Kansas newspaper titles digitized and available on Chronicling America.
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