With the invention of the telegraph, and the resulting wire service for news, coverage of far-flung events still had its faults. These telegraph reports would still be missing information, and any updates on the same story in the same paper were not combined in a single story. To make sure you read everything about a story, you would have to read the entire telegraph section.

Even with a faithful wire service, weekly publications sometimes wouldn't print the telegraph reports until the next week, keeping readers in suspense, particularly with news of sickness out East.

This blog takes a look at the coverage of the 1879 yellow fever outbreak in the Southern United States, from the vantage of newspapers in the Washington Territory.

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[1] (1879, July 17). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “Yellow Fever at Memphis” to “New Orleans Alright.”

[2] (1879, July 24). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “Scourge of the South”. Puget Sound Weekly

[3] (1879, July 31). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “Yellow Jack” and “The Fever”. Puget Sound

[4] (1879, July 31). “The hope that...”. Puget Sound Weekly Argus, Vol. 9, No. 24, pp. 4.

[5] (1879, August 7). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “The Fever” to “Deaths at Quarantine”. Puget

[6] (1879, August 7). City Council Proceedings. Puget Sound Weekly Argus, Vol. 9, No. 25, pp. 4.

[7] (1879, August 14). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “Poor Memphis”. Puget Sound Weekly Argus,

[8] (1879, August 21). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “The Southern Scourge” and “The Fever”. Puget

[9] (1879, August 28). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “The Fever” and “Fever in Cuba”. Puget Sound

[10] (1879, September 11). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “The Fever”. Puget Sound Weekly Argus,

[11] (1879, September 13). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “Jay Goulding Relieving Distress” and “The
[12] (1879, September 18). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “The Fever” and “Fever Raging in Georgia”.
[13] (1879, September 20). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “The Fever” and “Quarantine Raised”. Puget
[14] (1879, September 25). “The total number of deaths...”. Puget Sound Weekly Argus, Vol. 9, No.
[15] (1879, September 27). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “The Fever” and “Quarantine Raised”. Puget
[16] (1879, October 2). “At last accounts...”. Puget Sound Weekly Argus, Vol. 9, No. 33, pp. 4.
[17] (1879, October 11). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “Quarantine Raised”, “Memphis” and “The
[18] (1879, October 25). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “The Fever”, “The Fever” and “Yellow Fever in
[19] (1879, November 1). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “The Fever”, “The Fever”, “Quarantine
Suspended” and “Resumption in Memphis”. Puget Sound Mail, Vol. 7, No. 20, pp. 1. http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/images/newspapers/SL_dir_laconnerpugesounmail/pdf/SL_dir_laconnerpugesounmail_11011879.pdf

[20] (1879, November 6). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “Fever Abating”. Puget Sound Weekly Argus,
[21] (1879, November 8). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “The Fever” and “Memphis All Right”. Puget
[22] (1879, November 13). Telegraphic-Eastern States: “Memphis All Right”. Puget Sound Weekly

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[a] Board of Health on River. Retrieved March 6, 2013, from: Historic Memphis http://historic-memphis.com/memphis/yellow-fever/yellow-fever-board-of-health.jpg
[b] Jay Gould [Photograph], Retrieved March 5, 2013, from: Library of Congress archive of Prints & Photographs. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.03807/

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