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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1908
Page
6
Dolly Templeton and Jimmy Aldrich confront love and social bounds while stranded near a picnic site. He reveals plans for a career move and asks for marriage, but Dolly chooses love over independence and agrees to wed rather than remain apart. They move toward a church wedding.
A historian calls Christmas night 1776 Washington crossing the Delaware the darkest hour of the Revolution. He notes the American army dwindling and Congress in poverty while British forces held many comforts and seemed victorious. Washington moved his army, baggage, and artillery across the Delaware unseen, near the enemy, then seized Princeton and forced British operations to withdraw to New York.
Poetic couplets praise bold resolve defending a nation from foreign wrong. The verse upholds pride glory and honor as guiding colors in unity and resolve to stand or fall.
Rev. Thomas B. Gregory recounts the flag’s origins from June 14 1777 through 1818 and the 13 to 15 star and stripe transitions. He notes Windover’s restraint on stripes, Fort Stanwix siege, Peter Gansevoort’s defense, and Paul Jones’s Ranger exchange with a French admiral in Quiberon Bay. The piece ends with a patriotic salute to Old Glory and a prayer for its longevity.
When the Declaration of Independence was read in New York on July 9 1776 joyful citizens toppled a statue of George III and ordered its lead melted into bullets for fighting the British.
Yale plans a campus statue of Nathan Hale by William Ordway Partridge after alumni review in New York. The piece contrasts with MacMonnies sculpture near City Hall and reflects Hale's athletic prowess and patriotism as described from descriptions and ideals.
An account describes Thomas Jefferson and his grandson riding with a slave who saluted. Jefferson returns the courtesy by tipping his hat while his grandson ignores the act, prompting Jefferson to reproach the youth for allowing a slave to outpolite him.
A sailor recalls celebrating the Fourth of July aboard the cruiser Olympia eleven years ago and its later role as Admiral Dewey’s flagship at Manila Bay. He describes a spectacular on deck fire and a bespoke garden lake scene, with English ships cruising the coast and an exchange of gift folders with the Undaunted crew.
The text recalls a Fourth of July celebration aboard the Olympia during the SpanishAmerican era. It notes a Japanese fencing contest, day and night fireworks, and a memorable exchange between Captain Read and a stranger who becomes Commodore Dewey’s Gridley. It marks Gridley’s later command and the ship’s decommissioning.
In the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania on July 4, 1778, Tory John Butler led loyalists and Indians in a raid while the men were away. Women children and elderly sheltered in a fort surrendered under promise of protection and were slaughtered, with many others killed in their homes.
Thomas Taylor, claiming American citizenship, was arrested by Irish officer O Donohue after he cut the ropes of an American flag at 219 Bloomfield Street Hoboken. He was forced to climb the forty foot flagpole and reattach the flag amid cheering crowds of diverse heritage.
Colonel John White of the Georgia line devised a ruse with three orderlies and Captain Ethholm to lure Captain French at Savannah. Fire signals simulated a hostile camp causing French to surrender his detachment and crews of five vessels with 130 arms. White then escorted the British soldiers away before dawn, fearing Tory vengeance.
In a Paris dated January 16 1787 Thomas Jefferson told Edward Carrington that government should rest on the people's opinion and that he would rather have newspapers than a government if everyone could receive and read them. He stressed the need for universal access to news.
A Carlyle prophecy frames Boston tea party and a Pennsylvanian congress as precursors to democracy’s global rise. It envisions gunfire at Bunker Hill and a world swept by a Yankee Doodle banner as liberty’s force spreads worldwide.
A brief excerpt presents poetic lines by George D. Prentice about new states rising with starry emblems and souls seeking freedom. It frames liberty as enduring, with the harp of Liberty sounding beyond even death as time becomes dust on a broken lyre.
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