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Lincoln Birthday Centennial Plan for 1909 Celebration
Preparations proceed in Springfield Illinois for the one hundredth birth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln set for February 12 1909. The Lincoln Centennial association directs the proceedings with charter members including Melville Fuller Joseph Cannon Adlai Stevenson Deneen Yates Stone and others. Invitations extended to the president cabinet ambassadors and foreign officials. Notable figures Bryce Sessurand Bryan and Taft expected to attend. The program features grave ceremonies morning public meeting afternoon and banquet night with two main aims to spread the same program nationwide to schools and to have all school children salute at a designated hour.
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Springfield
Ill
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Centennial Association
Melville W. Fuller
United States
Cultom and Hopkins
Illinois
Joseph G. Cannon
Adlai E. Stevenson
Deneen
James A. Rose
Benjamin F. Caldwell
Richard Yates
Ilinois
Melville E. Stone
New York
John W. Bunn
Horace White
William Jayne
Bryce
Sessurand
William J. Bryan
William H Taft
Springfeld