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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1923
Page
15
Several Gladstone firemen plan to travel to Ironwood for the Upper Peninsula Firemen's Tournament held in late July. Ironwood prepares races and drills to improve firefighter skills while Gladstone sights unite merchants and citizens in backing their bid.
The Bunker Hill monument in Boston guards Breed's hill, paralleling the redoubt used in the battle. An 1824 association formed to commemorate the event invited General Lafayette to lay the cornerstone on June 17, 1825, with Daniel Webster delivering the oration as forty survivors joined a vast crowd.
The article notes Lafayette meetings with soldiers in the Revolution, approval of Solomon Willard's design, and construction beginning in 1827 by James Savage. The apex stone of the Bunker Hill Monument was raised at dawn on July 28, 1542, with Edward Carnes Jr. of Charleston saluting with the American flag as cannons fired to announce the event.
The article explains the arrangement of the Flag of the Future with thirteen central stars for the original states from the 1782 seal, twenty-five in the inner circle from Washington’s 1776 design marking states added in the first century, and ten outer circle stars for states admitted since 1876. New stars will be inserted at equal intervals.
The text notes that on May 19 1648 the Massachusetts Bay Plymouth Connecticut and New Haven colonies formed a compact for common defense. This early federation emerged as settlements spread, with Rhode Island Maine and some others remaining aloof. It aided peace with Narragansett and restrained Dutch and Swedish expansion. Twenty years later a new federation followed.
The State Department library in Washington stores the originals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in a thin steel safe that is not fire or water resistant and is surrounded by combustible material. A yearly request for $20,000 to provide a fireproof vault was omitted from the appropriation bill and ignored. The safe is said to fail in a severe fire within 20 minutes.
The Sons of Liberty formed October 1765 in a Harvard Square distillery room Boston and aimed to oppose the Stamp Act. Led by Paul Revere among organizers, they were a bold youth group. Some believe pretended Indians who dumped tea were members.
The piece reflects on Jeffersons idea that democracy rests on the consent of the governed and contrasts it with recent political changes over the last few decades. It notes the shift toward oligarchy and despotism as a measure of his vision.
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