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“As a way of warning we are asking our people not to get so free as to be reckless on the Fourth of July. It is well known that we usually have more accidents, deaths and injuries on that date than at normal times. We can have a good time and enjoy…

"Charles H. Percy, Republican candidate for U.S. Senator, will participate in two Fourth of July celebrations on Monday, one in Chicago and the other in Carmi, Ill., where he will speak following an appearance by his November opponent. Percy’s…

"Now I used to be a soldier
Of the good old U.S.A.
And I fought in France’s trenches
Till they had the Arm’stice Day

Then they said the war was over,
And the fighting was all done;
So we took the steamer homeward
Mighty Glad we licked the…

"Several accidents were the toll of the Fourth of July celebrations in Harlem. Peter Rodriguez, 11, 2143, seventh avenue, sustained abrasions and powder burns on the right leg from the discharge of a pistol at close range by an unidentified boy. The…

"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…

"Casualties in United States From Celebration of Fourth.
Chicago.-- Latest reports on the number of casualties in the United States due to the celebration of the Fourth of July show that 39 lives were sacrificed and 1,217 were injured, as compared…

"If Fourth of July be warm and fair,
Expect to smell powder everywhere.
If rain comes down and wet us through,
Look out for bands and processions, too.
If the sun shines bright and the sky be blue,
The balloon may go up at half-past two.
If…

"19 Killed; 427 Injured
In Some Cities the Fourth Was Celebrated in a “Sane” Manner and No Deaths Were Reported.
Chicago, Ill.-- Statistics compiled regarding Fourth of July casualties throughout the country indicate a much smaller list of…

“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…

"Time was, not so very long ago, when the boys and girls, too, for that matter, thought there couldn’t be a Fourth of July without a great noise of bursting firecrackers and other dangerous and loud, banging fireworks. Now things are quite different.…

"The Glorious Fourth of July, is, and has been in celebration for quite some time in the fire-cracker world, and quite a few accidents already."

"The Fourth of July being celebrated with fire works around and about for almost a month before the date, has come and gone with its usual amount of casualties."

CHICAGO, Ill., July 1- Going somewhere over the Fourth of July?
If so, then plan for the trip safely. But even if you stay home, keep safety in mind for the of July holiday- one of the most dangerous, week-ends of the year.
That is the advice of…

“The religious summer school has a fairly good enrollment. The ten-day session will end Wednesday July 10. Prof. Clement Richardson addressed the High School Bible Class at the Grace Cathedral, Sunday Morning, July 7th. He told the young people of…

“AS THE TWIG IS BENT—THE TREE WILL INCLINE”
“The above saying, even though old, is only too true today. Every conscientious parent is keenly aware that the big task of training a boy to useful manhood is to see that the proper growth of the twig is…

"July is here it started with a BANG! courtesy of fireworks, and ecstatic that school is out young’uns.
Watermelon, picnics, popsicles, and picnics seem to be the order of the day around these parts. And Bar-B-Que’, you can smell it for miles…

"The Grand Marshal is making exertions to have a fine celebration on 4th proximo, in which he is ably assisted by the President, Judge Palmer and the Standing Committees. The Board of Supervisors have appropriated $3,000 towards the expenses of the…

"Here are some Fourth of July Don’ts that are different. Most Fourth of July Don’t are for children, but here is a list prepared by the national safety council for parents;
Don’t forget that the first proof of Fourth of July patriotism is home…

"The fourth of July has come and gone. For most of us in Bel Aire, it was a regular old fashioned day without the danger of fireworks. The small fry were as much in in the fun as the adults. Almost every family worked their barbecue pits full blast.…

"Two deaths and the serious wounding of another by acci-dents somewhat marred the celebration of Independence Day here Saturday.

Man killed by truck
Robert Curtis, 1116 Calhoun St., was struck by an automobile truck Saturday and died before he…

"Tour of the city Sunday and Monday disclosed the fact that most of the fireworks were set off in the poor residential sections. Cannon crackers and roman candles did not seem to be the means employed by the wealthy to celebrate the Fourth of…

If the Maryland Tuberculosis Association succeeds in its present plan of securing the consent of the city to use the city-wide celebration of the fourth of July at Druid Hill Park to secure subscriptions and pledges for its proposed Preventorium for…

"During my boyhood, this coming midnight was for me a delirium of bliss; for on the glorious Fourth my mother allowed me to rise at midnight and go out on the street and yell until breakfast. While that method of entertainment does not appeal to me…

"No doubt every one of you know that Saturday is July 4 (Independence day). Throughout the entire country children and grown-ups will be celebrating this national holiday. In all probability Billikens will come in for their share of good time, but in…

"The fourth of July, to children. Seems a long way off, but it takes time to make a bang-up celebrating of the great day. Thus, the Irving Park community council has already begun work in cooperation with the fourth of July committee, planning to…

"Special to the Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia designed to prevent a repetition of the Fourth of July fatality and accident toll, a bill prohibiting individual use of fireworks has been introduced in the House of Representatives at…

"Wianno, Cape Cod, Mass., July 12-Summer visitors to this resort were elaboratey entertained at the home of Miss Georgia E. James, of Baltimore, Md., on the Fourth of July. After witnessing the fireworks on the pier the guests repaired to the piaza…

"“Don’ts’” for a safe and sane Fourth of July celebration have been listed by Arthur H. Young president of the National Safety council, in appeaking for “a glorious day and not a disastrous one.”

Children particularly should be guarded, he said,…

"Several accidents were the toll of the Fourth of July celebrations in Harlem. Peter Rodriguez, 11, 2143 Seventh avenue, sustained abrasions and powder burns on the right leg from the discharge of a pistol at close range by an unidentified boy. The…

"At Wanamie, a mining town five miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa., five boys were killed and nine others injured by celebrating the 4th of July.
They had placed powder in a pipe, and it failed to go off. They then forced a stick of dynamite into the…

"A Washington dispatch says: Employees of the isthmian canal commission on the canal zone will have a regular old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration in Panama. Special excursions are to run to Panama for the accommodation of persons desiring to…

"Those useful persons, the statisticians, whose work usually makes us wiser, if not always happier, have figured up that our lst Fourth of July celebration cost this country the lives of not less than 377 men, women and children, the wounding and…

"Among other things that have been now laid away among the dust and ribbons, is the old “autograph album” of post bellum days. It was a fad of our mothers and fathers, and it numbered many of us among its devotees in our salad days. But it is an…

"The traveling man who sells hardware remarked that he was afraid he would die of heart disease if he was ever compelled to go to the front. His friends wanted to know what made him think so, and after lighting a fresh cigar he said:
“It was…

"Hurrah for the glorious Fourth of July! Fire salutes. Make patriotic speeches- celebrate, folks, celebrate. Bang! Bomb! Hurrah! But stop the noise just a minute while we think of what a certain important document means. I frequently think of the…

"Dealers in New York city say that the demand for fireworks is unprecedented. More fireworks will sizzle, boom and sputter than ever before, and the small boys of the land will explode over 3,200,000,000 firecrackers in homage of liberty. Inquiries…

"When giant fireworks, pin-wheels, sparklers, and cap pistols are being used to celebrate the Fourth of July, nothing is farther from mind of the average child than what Independence Day really means. Little fellows who throw torpedoes on car tracks…

"INDEPENDENCE DAY IS JULY 4… You know it best as the FOURTH OF JULY… It’s a day of celebration and this year we are a bit more jubilant than last year, all because our armies were victorious over the Axis in the European theatre of war, but we must…

"Claiming the dubious distinction of being the most belated victims of a Fourth of July prank, two men and a woman were burned and bruised about the legs Friday night by a giant fire-cracker.
Those injured when the cracker exploded in a store at…

"LOS ANGELES – A small firecracker, a small bottle of gin, and a sense of humor inspired by the gin, has caused Herman Rucker of Texas to return to that vast state in somewhat of a hurry, has cost him his pretty new wife and has set the six-foot…

"Says the Detroit Free Press, “There is an old goat owned on Lowis Street, which has received a great deal of training from the boys. Last Fourth of July they discovered that if they stuck a fire cracker in the end of a cane and held it at William he…

“Celebrations Elsewhere - The Fourth of July was celebrated with general enthusiasm in almost every city, town and village in the State.
In Sacramento, it is said they had the best ordered and most pleasing celebration ever held in that city. The…

The first victim of the Fourth of July, according to police, is 14-year-old Irvin Stewart, who died in a Woodbury, N.J., hospital Tuesday of tetanus. A week ago young Stewart and several companions obtained some blank cartridges and borrowed a…

"With the fourth [sic] of July coming up, Bud hopes that the Billikens everywhere will be extra careful about crossing streets and getting in the way of cars and trucks.

You must be extra careful during the holiday period as most everyone is so…

“Wham! Bang! Boon. Firecrackers, torpedoes, flares and what have you? … Radeo thrills, chills and just plenty spills. Picnics, a la country style, open pavilion danves, and so another July 4th passes. Independence Day, and what have we but several…

"How may I celebrate the Fourth of July—and still avoid the possibility of being numbered among scores who will probably be killed, or among the several thousands who will probably be seriously injured?
This is a practical question which the…
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