Today Mary turns 19. She acknowledges (with some ambivalence) her dear Frankie, receives a lovely present from her close friend Dottie and indicates continued grief and love for her mother, who died in 1910.
Mary starts her diary entry by celebrating the surrender of Bulgaria as an Axis power in the war. The headline in the Evening Public Ledger reads: "Bulgaria Signs Armistice on Terms of Allies; American and Allied Armies Smashing Enemy, Ferdinand Out of War and Agrees to Break with Central Powers, Envoys Execute Pact on Battlefront in Balkans, Forces in Field to Discard Arms". Clearly the war in Europe is rapidly drawing to a close.
At the same time there is a falsely reassuring front page Evening Public Ledger headline regarding influenza: "Grip Decreasing; Danger Passing, Doctors Believe". But there is no word about the flu in The Philadelphia Inquirer until page 3:
