Bedford Fourth of July Festivity and a Young Man's Choice
In Bedford a village marks Fourth of July with a grand plan led by Squire Whitcomb. Tom Whitcomb, chosen as orator in place of his friend, reunites with Susie Campbell at the Widow Campbell’s, faces a competing suitor believed to be her uncle, and learns a hard lesson in love and responsibility.
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The Semi-Centennial of Independence Founders Die Same Day
A historical note on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson dying on the same day fifty years after presenting the Declaration. The piece details their differing temperaments and beliefs, their early friendship, later political rifts, and the dramatic coincidence of their deaths on July 4, 1826, the Declaration's semi centennial.
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Last Survivor of the Declaration Signers Charles Carroll
A historical note recounts Charles Carroll of Carrolton, the last survivor of the Declaration signers, who died in 1899 at age 95. It records he had just been chosen to Congress on July 4, 1776 and notes which signers remained alive in 1821 and their subsequent deaths in 1826.
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