Punchestown racegoers will be treated to two Champion Hurdle winners in two days as following on from Honeysuckle on Friday, Epatante heads the field for Saturday’s Coolmore Kew Gardens Irish EBF Mares Champion Hurdle.
Old records shed new light on smallpox outbreaks in 1700s
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WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press
May 20, 2021
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1of3In this image provided by the American Ancestors & New England Historic Genealogical Society, a digitized copy of a page from a handwritten 18th century diary by the Rev. Ebenezer Storer, during a period of smallpox, in Boston, shows an April 1764 entry that includes a prayer Storer wrote weeks after arranging to have his own children inoculated. In the prayer, Storer gives thanks for the recovery of family members from the disease. (American Ancestors & New England Historic Genealogical Society via AP)APShow MoreShow Less