Add to ORKG• The article discusses the mayor’s proposal to have liquor sold on doctors’ orders from the side doors of saloons. The State Board of Health assented to the mayor’s plan. However, the article notes that Director Price of the state health department sent a telegram to the mayor insisting that the city comply fully with the order to close saloons. The text of the telegram is presented in the article.• New cases of the flu are reported to be near 1,000.• No public funerals will be allowed. Bodies must be buried within 24 hours.• Monsignor Isaac Whelan has made available the services of “several thousand” sisters of the diocese to help care for the sick.• Grave diggers and pall bearers are in scarce supply.Newspaper article