10/13/1918: This "Influenza": Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and Power Company.

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Newspaper advertisement for Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and Power Company with text featuring a smiling man reaching over head and screwing in a lightbulb. A smiling woman stands in the background holding a basket with lightbulbs.
Title
10/13/1918: This "Influenza": Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and Power Company.
Creator
Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and Power Company
Source
Newspapers.com
Date
October 13th, 1918
Coverage
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Description
Ad claiming that the bright illumination from Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and Power Company light bulbs betters the experience of staying home during the pandemic.
Format
Newspaper
Rights
Public domain. For more information please contact Special Collections and Archives, McIntyre Library, UW-Eau Claire.
Publisher
The Eau Claire Leader
transcription
"This "Influenza" is making many people stay at home. Make your home more pleasant and prepare for long evenings. Fill those empty light sockets, look over all your electric lamps, take out the old- substitute Mazda bulbs of proper candle power. Electric light is soft, clean and brilliant. Lamps sale at our Display Room. Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and Power Company."
Item sets
Chippewa Valley 1918 Pandemic
Site pages
Profiting off the Flu
Media
Newspaper advertisement for Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and Power Company with text featuring a smiling man reaching over head and screwing in a lightbulb. A smiling woman stands in the background holding a basket with lightbulbs.This "Influenza": Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and Power Company.

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