A Spanish Flu relic reappears at Sleeping Bear Inn

In late May, Jeff Kato of Balancing Environment and Rehabilitation (BEAR), the nonprofit rehabbing Glen Haven’s historic Sleeping Bear Inn, found this bottle of Foley’s Cough Syrup—a concoction of 7% alcohol, honey and pine tar made popular during the 1918 flu epidemic—behind the baseboard in one of the guest rooms. The cough syrup has reappeared for the COVID-19 pandemic.