26 New Cases Of Influenza

*According to the State Department of Health, the epidemic is persisting in the ‘mill cities,’ i.e. Lowell, Fall River, and Lawrence. The article states, “Just why the disease should persist in ‘mill cities’ like the three mentioned, while it clears up in busy marts of trade, not officially listed as ‘mill’ places, is hard to understand. But the State Department of Health says it is so, and it is not to be contradicted.”*Protestant and Catholic churches suspended all services yesterday.*Rachel Barrington, Superintendent of the Lowell Guild, died of flu yesterday.Newspaper article1,