In modern times, we’d call it doom-scrolling: aimlessly flipping through articles filled with frustrating, frightening, or otherwise ominous news.  In Fall of 1918, though, it was just called reading the news.  From war to an influenza epidemic to power outages to literal snake oil salesmen, there was a lot going on, and as such I wanted to combine these reports with what we know now of the time to paint a picture of a few months in town over a century ago.