How They Will Spend the Fourth from Boston to the Sea
A Boston Herald style roundup lists President Cleveland at Gray Gables and Governor Russell in Maine, while Adjutant General Dalton plans Plymouth wakeups and ex Governor Robinson stays home. Many citizens prefer beaches, harbors, or travel aboard Cunard Campania with honeymooners Henry Kitson aboard. Local clerks, merchants, and editors describe varied Fourth plans from family gatherings to regattas and fireworks, with observers and travelers in and around Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Gray Gables
Russell
Maine
Dalton
Plymouth
Mass
Robinson
Chicopee
Edward Everett Hale
Matunuck
R. I
John Reed Whipple
Parker House
Neptune
Galératus
Nathaniel Coddard Robinson
Nahant
Boston
William
Minot J. Savage
Christopher R. Eliot
W. H. Longridge
George D. Carpenter
Cephalonia
Savage
John O'Donovan
Peter J. Hughes
Joseph T. Cunningham
Vendome
Portsmouth
N. H
Burrill
William Pitt Glennon
Jamaica Plain
Louis Dick
Barber
Pi Daniel T. Curtin
Manchester
Codmans
T. N. Codman
Hugh Codman
Ogden Codman
Alice Codman
Dorothy Codman
John H. Cassidy
Deer Island
Beacon
Fireworks Factories and Precautions in 1893 Parkville Plant
A detailed tour of one of the world’s largest fireworks firms near Coney Island reveals crowded wooden sheds, a powder magazine, and careful, clean workspaces. Workers, including girls, roll and assemble cases, bombs, and rockets with strict safety habits and high attention to dust and spark control, amid large scale production for July fourth and World’s Fair year celebrations.
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United States
Parkville
Coney Island
The Glorious Fourth in Bells and Fireworks
A vivid account of Independence Day celebrations with guns, bells, flags, crowds, crackers, torpedoes, and torches moving from daylight to night. The Philadelphia Times sketches a bustling scene across streets, noting the nightly glow and readers awaiting next day’s papers for the full facts.
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Philadelphia Times
Fragments of a Sunlit Nation in a Patchwork Column
A collage of wry quips on politics and daily life from a late era newspaper. Jokes about Home Rule, Brooklyn aldermen, and streetcars mix with musings on cyclones, opium costumes, and who discovered America. A Long Island editor is robbed. opinions on capital punishment surface amid slang and satire.
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Samson
Brooklyn
Canada
City Hall
Harlem
San Antonio
Long Island
Buchanan
India
John Cabot
Columbus
America
Thomas P. Ochiltree
New York
el Perkins
Tom Ochiltree
Albany
Honolulu
Texas
Birthplace of the Stars and Stripes Flag in Philadelphia
The two story house at 289 Arch Street Philadelphia is linked to Mrs John Ross who made the first flag from Washington s design adopted by Congress on June 14 1777 A history of flag design notes the evolution from stripes to the current thirteen stripes and star field praising the American flag as a beautiful national emblem Long may it wave untarnished.
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Arch Street
Third
Philadelphia
John Ross
General Washington
Congress
Ross
United States of America
Washington
Dorylaeum
Phrygia
Soliman
Say
Sele
Jack Cade
Cheapside
London
Court of
Portugal
Lisbon
John Fryth
Smithfield
Leed’s Bridge
Henry VIII
Amidas and
Barlow
Sir Walter Raleigh
American
Florida
George, Duke of Albermarle
Mritain
Geary
Port au-Prince
Williamsburg
Cornwallis
Goshen van Schaick
United States
Continental Army
Wapping
Eng
Pittsburg
Battle of
Maida
Italy
United States Solidiers
General W. Scott
Street’s Creek
Richard Watson
Llandaff
Paine
Rome
N. Y
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Queen Maria II
Rio Janeiro
James Monroe
Grand Junction Railway
Liverpool
Birmingham
Smyrna
Texas
Speer
Wetterhorn
Paris
M. de Chateaubriand
St. George’s
Sardinia
Venice
Mexico
Washington Monument
Capetown
Cape of Good Hope
New York
Kirby
England
Denmark
France
Prussia
Sweden
John Russell
Sir Robert Peel
House of Commons
Baltimore
James Murray
Alexandria
George Peabody
Star and Garter
Richmond
Union Square
William L. Marcy
Lucknow
Sir Henry Lawrence
Montreal
Straits of Belleisle
Vick Burg
Vicksburg
Grant
Mr. Disraeli
Westbury
Johnson
Mayatlan
Duke of Edinburgh
Prince and Princess of Wales
Crystal Palace
Peabody
American Southern Education Fund
Gladstone
M. de Lesseps
Duke of Sutherland
Leopold
Prince of
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Committee of Lords
Antwerp
Victoria
Aldershot
Geneva
Pan-Presbyterian Council
Edinburgh
Ulundi
Chelmsford
Dee
Cospatrick Alexander Hom Earl of Home
Gladgency
Justice of England
St. James's Hall
Ry Irving
United
Princess of Wales
Bloomsbury
Iquis
Winchester
Iven
New England
Prince
Queen’s Square
Mner
Wellington
Notable Date Recalls Wide Range of Historic Events
A chronology of diverse events dated on this notable day includes battles, royal deaths, explorations, political acts, and scientific feats from 1097 to 1890. Highlights mention Dorylaeum, executions, colonial conferences, the Erie Canal, Vicksburg surrender, and the dedication of memorials among many others.
My Fourth of July Love a Small Town Tale
A nostalgic, comic reminiscence of youth and first love in a rural setting. The narrator recalls Melvina Jackson, rival Sam Greene, and a sequence of schoolyard pranks, poetry battles, a circus, fireworks, and a chaotic Fourth of July ending in heartbreak for both boys. The piece closes with a faded romance and a 1893 copyright notice.
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Melvina Jackson
M. Quad
Little Johnnie's Loss Echoes in Cannon Mishap
A grim note recalls a boy named Johnnie who died in a cannon misfire. The verse laments the youngster’s absence and the tragic accident implied by his fall near a touch hole and the cannon’s shout.
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Johnnie
Independence Day Reflections on Our Pledges and Duty
The piece recalls that the Union’s work extends beyond 1776 and 1789, emphasizing the legacy of the fathers who signed the Declaration. It urges renewed resolve to honor the pledges of independence on the national anniversary.
Patriotic Bab and the Fourth of July Fires
The piece ponders annual patriotism amid Fourth of July displays and political rhetoric. It contrasts flat-dwelling urban life with country living, critiques plumbers unions, laments city patriotism, and lauds America’s faults and virtues while celebrating national pride through a tongue in cheek lens.
Bright Proprieter and the Men Behind Boston's Largest Furniture House
The piece profiles Osgood & Co of Boston, highlighting founder’s era, Charlie Osgood as senior partner, Currier as a lithe promoter, and staff like George Carter. It praises the showy store, window displays, and the firm’s branding with “When in doubt buy of Osgood” as a hallmark of success and personality in the furniture trade.
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Osgood
E. Osgood & Co
Boston
Charlie
New
C. E. Osgood & Co
George Carter
Minna Gale Haynes
A Fourth of July Tale of a Boy and a Tiny Cannon
A fragment recalls a boy who built a small cannon to vex adults. The device exploded with deadly force, killing Johnny and other boys and spreading terror from Maine to Missouri. The tale notes a shift to a warlike tone and mentions a place some call Illinois or Tllynoise as a mispronounced locale.
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Johnny
French Fourth of July Celebrations in Paris
A New York Advertiser report describes July 14 in Paris with no carriages allowed, gaslit avenues, blue white and red decorations, bands playing, the Trocadero and Eiffel Tower lit up, and fireworks. Children sing and dance in the streets as the city lights shimmer over the Seine.
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Paris
New York Advertiser
Fourth of July Celebrations Compared with Country Troop Zeal
The New York Herald recounts that country districts still raise troops to fight King George with the flag raised and a hero an orator who vows his life amid cheers. Children imagine a move to slaughter stereotypical Englishmen, as fear and zeal grip the crowd.
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George
New York Herald
The Prophecy of John Adams and Fourth of July Celebrations
The country marks Independence Day with bells fireworks and cannon in tribute to John Adams prophecy. The celebration has evolved with time but preserves the same patriotic spirit nationwide.
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John Adams
Independence Hall
Four national holidays mark our patriotism and character
The text argues that the United States has four holidays, each teaching patriotism. Independence Day remains central among them, though modern observance is less exuberant. The shift reflects a more serious, deeply rooted conviction rather than waning patriotism.
Fourth of July Reflections on Poverty and Wealth
The lyric vignette recalls waking before dawn on Independence Day to forecast rain and dream of endless riches. A child’s cracker startles one into poverty’s grip and a man’s holiday burden unfolds. The narrator counts scant shekels and clings to them as dusk nears.
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America
Tex
Origin of the Declaration and colonial self rule
Judge argues origins of the Declaration vary from Runnymeade charter to Mayflower compact and Mecklenburg resolves. He links colonial development to inborn Anglo Saxon self reliance, viewing it as the root of independence.
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Runnymeade
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Sonny
Post
District Messenger Service
Mercury
West End
Young America
Uth Russell Street
Sable America
Oliver Optic
Europe
Adams
Tommy Toppleton
Waddy Wimpleton
Henry Hudson Kitson
John Dane
Robert Lovett
Old Atlantic
Arthur F. Knapp
H. Carruthers
Archie T. Martin
Fred H. Gade
H. Staples Otter
W. D Ilis
W. H. Gardiner
James H. Ropes
J. M. Barnard
Allan Cameron
Donald Cameron
H. RB. Sargent
James H. Freeland
C. M. Seaver
W. H. Macey
George Fiske
James Kelcher
Worcester
John Harrigan
Charles River
Gee Rus Rogers
Durnan
Charlestown
D. L. Murphy
Lake Walden
Tom Moore
Johnnie Gough
W. Howard Barnes
State Street
Beverly
Jonah Bigelow
Saratoga
Lake George
Lexington
Frank Jones
Sorrento
Me. L. Demmon
Howard National Bank
Weston
Ada
Black
Niagara Rapids
Marlboro House
National Pension Fund For
Melvina
Melyina
Sam Greene
Sam
Providence
Mr. Jackson
Borneo
Melvynna
Bab
Federator
de Union
Anks
George Washington
Grover Cleveland
Third Avenue
White House
Columbia
Allite
Carter Harrison
Pach
Charles E. Osgood
Furniture House
Kentucky
Missouri
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