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February 26, 1918

The City of Fairmont, WV publishes a smallpox notice, recommending everyone submit to vaccination agains the loathsome disease. The bolsheviki are making a stand at Pskov street in Petrograd. The ongoing fuel shortage is attributed to Fuel Administration suppressing coal supplier prices. Fairmont boys are being shipped to Camp Greenleaf in Georgia.

Source: "Vaccination Notice," The West Virginian, Fairmont, West Virginia, February 26, 1918. Page 1, Column 7.

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