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"[From our Salt Lake Correspondent]
Salt Lake, U.T., July 4, ’73.
Mr. Editor, - We hail with gladness the returning anniversary of our glorious national birthday, and let us in an appropriate manner with the enthusiasm which characterizes the…

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"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…

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"The man who secretly arms himself with a murderous revolver or some other deadly weapon and goes out among people who have gathered for a day’s pleasure starts out wrong. It is in the very air for every American citizen to feel a swelling of the…

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"If Separate Street Car Laws, Why Not Separate Bedrooms?

If Sucking at Breasts of “Black Mammies” Didn’t Hurt White Men, How will Riding on the Same Conveyances with Negros Hurt them? Asks Congressman.

WASHINGTON- Hurling defiance at all…

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"The Fourth of July is a National Day of freedom, is indisputably righteous and Divinely dedicated for the happiness of mankind.
Just 120 years from the last Saturday, the Convention of the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves then, on behalf of…

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"Washington D.C.- Far ranging support from black Americans for “Honor America Day,” the massive fourth of July celebration planned for Washington and throughout the nation, was announced recently by the sponsoring committee.

J. Willard Marriott,…

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"At a Fourth of July celebration in a Canadian town where both English and American guests were assembled the flags of the two countries were in decorations. A frivolous young English girl, loyal to the Queen, but with no love for the Stars and…

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"If the cannons roared and the guns shot any regular than they did here on July 4th, when this country was fighting for independence in the [ill], were going south. Thousands of lives may have been lost in the fight of the 70’s, but Thousand Dollars…

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"The Christian Endeavour convention which meets in Boston, Mass., July 10th-15th, has already aroused a great deal of interest. The committee of arrangements have been granted the use of Boston common for a big open air meeting of patriotic meeting…

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"The Fourth of July services at St. Stephen’s Church on Sunday night, July 3rd., will be particularly attractive and interesting on account of the war. The church will be tastefully decorated with the national colors, the music will be stirring and…

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"On Friday February, 22nd Chancellor Wm. E. Boggs of the University of Georgia, accompanied by Prof Otis Ashmore of the Commission of Georgia State Industrial College and Mr. Roberson of Ginn and Co., visited the college and examined several classes.…

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"Whenever Independence Day rolls around. The motion picture studios may be relied upon to provide a considerable array of seasonable patriotic “still” photographs. The one reproduced above seems to be the least dizzy of the current year’s crop, and…

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"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.…

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"New Year’s Day we share with all the world, and Christmas and Easter will all Christendom. The Fourth of July is emphatically our own day, but it is purely patriotic in its significance. Thanksgiving Day is as distinctively American as the Nation’s…

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"Patriotic colors with flags set the back ground for a gala 4th of July party for approximately 400 patients at the State hospital held on the spacious grounds. Awards were presented to the winners of the “Hog Callding”, and “Ball and Foot Race.”…

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"I try to hibernate on the 4th of July. The nauseating flag waving and the jingoistic rhetoric drives me to distraction. Yes, the cook-outs and concerts and the other events are pleasant enough, but I usually stay at home so that there is not the…

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In the Waverly Sun recently there was an editorial on an “Appreciation Club” the aim of which was, at periodic intervals, to express appreciation to some resident for something he or she had done for the community. I think it is a splendid idea and I…

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"Did you know that when General George Washington made his famous trek across the Delaware River, two blacks, Prince Whipple and Oliver Cromwell were with him?
Did you know that Crispus Attucks, long acknowledged to be the first casualty of the…

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