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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
4
A historical note recalls the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on July 4, 1826, marking a rare coincidence since both signed the Declaration. Adams died near noon and Jefferson a few hours later as Independence Day dawned.
A Washington Star retells a sultry August scene in 1776 when flies swarmed into the statehouse hall through open windows from a stable. The buzzing pests hastened the signing of the unanimous Declaration by the 56 congressmen, though not everyone was attacked.
The original engrossed copy of the Declaration is in the secretary of state’s keeping. It was in the patent office from 1841 to 1877 and is now hermetically sealed in a frame within a steel cabinet since 1804. The document, on parchment, shows cracking from facsimile work ordered by President Monroe in 1823 and is guarded and rarely shown. Two pages of Jefferson’s draft, with interleavings by Adams and Franklin, are kept at the state department.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard flag making bureau races to produce thousands of forty six star ensigns ahead of July four official start. Machines cut stars and workers stitch them on as the flag design shifts to an eight seven eight eight seven eight pattern for battleships and fortifications.
Commemorates July Fourth across history with Hawthorne's birthday Garibaldi and the founding of the canal, De Witt Clinton, the Erie Canal, Adams Jefferson Monroe and their deaths, the Louisiana Purchase era and Monroe Doctrine, Vicksburg Grant and the Civil War, the Brooklyn Bridge, Hawaiian statehood pacts, and the Spanish-American War signals. The poem links the date to ongoing political and military milestones and national character as recorded by the Brooklyn Eagle.
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat correspondent recalls a Texas Fourth of July celebration centered on a canvas-covered dancing pavilion. Cowboys and grain-farmers' daughters pair off for long, rollicking square dances led by a flexible Granger caller. Indians watch, amused, as dust and sun set on the lively revel.
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