1912

"(Special to The Afro-American Ledger.)

Cockeysville, Md., July 9.-A few friends from Baltimore were entertained by Miss. E. F. Foote, on the Fourth of July. The day was spent on the picturesque Gunpowder river, where fishing and…

Three are dead and thirty-seven ill as a result of eating poisoned food at the home of Mac Canady, near Garfield, Ga., on the Fourth of July, according to information reaching here. Mystery surrounds the wholesale poisoning of the Canady family, who…

“Physicians exploded a giant firecracker at the bedside of James McGowan at a hospital in Logansport, Ind., in the hope that the nervous shock would stop his hiccoughing, from which he had been suffering for five days, but though he was quieted he…

"In a Fourth of July address Mayor Shank once said, apropos of George Washington and truthfulness:
“Few of us, alas, can lay claim to that absolute veracity which was Washington’s boast! Thus the shoe pinches us all when the story of Jack Smith…

"Parks Crowded With Amusement Seekers
Few Accidents of Serious Nature Many Strangers Among Crowd A Day of Mirth and Merriment Nearest Attempt at Sane Fourth
The Fourth of July, as usual, was very widely observed throughout the city and at the…