From the Oct. 14, 1918, @HoustonChron: Houston Mayor A.E. Amerman was confined at home for two weeks because of influenza. In other news, a woman is arrested for providing booze to a soldier in uniform.

Illness keeping Heights residents from getting their ice delivered, according to this ad in the Oct. 14, 1918 Houston Post.

"We have at present about 25 men sick in bed..."

In the Oct. 15, 1918, @HoustonChron: From New York state comes news of the influenza-related death of a Houston soldier, Ray G. Teetshorn. A street in Woodland Heights now bears his name.

Few things sparked more terror in 19th century Houstonians than yellow fever. This passage, from the Houston Daily Telegram in 1878 and appearing in David G. McComb's "Houston: A History," shows how quarantines were sometimes carried out back then.