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July 19, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

THE REDSKINS CANCELATION OF 2020

THE FINAL REQIUM FOR THE REDSKINS

July 5, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS DEAD ON THE FOURTH OF JULY: FLOATING IN INNER HARBOR

As the rockets red glare bursted like bombs in the air, protesters in Baltimore took down a statue of Christopher Columbus.

Remains of the Christopher Columbus statue near Little Italy after it was ripped from its pedestal and dragged into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor by protesters on July 4, 2020.

July 3, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The battle hymn of Gettysburg, July 1-3 1863.

The battle of Gettysburg.. the newspapers.. the the anthem.. the paranormal.. all on July 1 through 3, 18963

June 18, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The general of Juneteenth

The Civil War ended in April 1865 and two months later, on June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger of the Union Army issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, with Granger saying, “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”

June 8, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

Flu masks are not just a 2020 thing: Dr. Inches divided a conference in 1918, and a barber “very cheerfully” decided to wear a mask

Yes, people grew sick and tired of being sick and tired then as well.. And with the discomfort of a global pandemic, people still got sick of masks in 1919 too.

In the coal region area, 3,273 residents of Schuylkill County would be counted among the dead.. In just a 2 day period, it was reported that 41 residents of Minersville died.. Gilberton had 51 die in just one set of row homes.. Schools, theaters, and businesses closed then as well .. They slowly began to reopen after this initial shock..

And all the while, masks were being pushed as mandatory apparel to continue life in the then ‘new normal’ of the post Spanish Flu pandemic..

May 24, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The forgotten pandemic that put a president in a hospital

About a decade the Asian Flu of 1957, another strain was suddenly filling the world’s hospitals with patients.. This new pandemic was circling the nation just as 60s rebellion was.. just as Charles Manson’s ‘family’ was on a murderous path in Tinseltown.. just as the Vietnam War sliced the nation in half.. bras burned. Woodstock’s mud.. It would go on to kill over 100,000 Americans and even hospitalize an American president .. It was the dreaded Hong Kong Flu pandemic of 1968..