Pray for the dead
and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday October 26, 1918
Washington, District of Columbia – Miss Sadie Gompers Passes Away
From the Duluth Labor World of October 26, 1918:
MISS GOMPERS PASSES AWAY
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Only Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gompers
Dies After Two Days’ Illness.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-Miss Sadie Gompers, only daughter of President Gompers and Mrs. Gompers, died in this city [October 14th] after a two days’ illness with influenza. Interment was private. President Gompers [of the American Federation of Labor] was in Italy with the American labor mission at the time of the tragic occurrence.
Miss Gompers was an accomplished singer, and she was well known to trade unionists because of the many conventions and public meetings she had attended with her father. The high esteem in which she was held was indicated by the telegrams and floral offerings received at the family residence from trade unionists and other friends in every section of the country.
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[Photograph added.]
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SOURCE
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-October 26, 1918
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1918-10-26/ed-1/seq-1/
IMAGE
Sadie Gompers, LOC, d. age 33 per WDC Eve Str p17, Oct 14, 1918
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014686373/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1918-10-14/ed-1/seq-17
See also:
-For more on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918:
From the National Geographic, History Magazine -Mar 2018:
-by Toby Saul
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/magazine/2018/03-04/history-spanish-flu-pandemic/
Inside the Swift, Deadly History of the Spanish Flu Pandemic
-One hundred years ago, the virus infected a third of the world’s population, killing 195,000 Americans in October 1918 alone. -[Emphasis added.]
From the CDC:
“Remembering the 1918 Influenza Pandemic”
https://www.cdc.gov/features/1918-flu-pandemic/index.html
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1918 influenza (flu) pandemic that swept the globe in what is still one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in recorded history.
From the Smithsonian of Nov 2017:
“How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America”
-by John M. Barry
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/
The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States
-Summary of three phases:
Spring 1918-1st phase, 3 day fever, most recover.
Sept-Dec 1918-2nd phase, deadly: esp young adults ages 20-40.
-October 1918 was the most deadly month.
Spring 1919-3rd phase, serious but less deadly.
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From the Washington (DC) Post of Nov 6, 1906:
https://www.newspapers.com/image/28807045/
MISS SADIE GOMPERS GETS WARM WELCOME AT CHASE’S
—–Miss Sadie Julia Gompers, who made her debut as a vaudeville singer at Chase’s yesterday afternoon, was received with an enthusiastic welcome by an appreciative audience, which numbered many of the young woman’s friends. Miss Gompers’ voice is a clear soprano. She sang…Tosti’s “Good-by”…..
Tosti’s “Goodbye” – Anna Belaya-soprano