Column: Lake Geneva and World War I
My previous two columns were devoted to accounts of the impact of the great Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918âwhich extended through 1919 and the first four months of 1920âin Lake Geneva. While researching how the great Spanish Flu Epidemic impacted Lake Geneva, I read issues of the two Lake Geneva newspapers, the Lake Geneva Herald and the Lake Geneva News, which merged in April 1919 following the death of the Heraldâs editor, John E. Nethercut, and the issues of the newly merged newspaper, also called the Lake Geneva News, from April 1919 to April 1920. As I noted in my two pr...