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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1920
Page
5
A chronology lists events from 1777 adoption of the Stars and Stripes as national flag to 1913 US Food Administration limiting sugar to three pounds per person per month. Also notes deaths and births of notable figures including Kleber and Barlett, diplomatic breaks, occupations, and parliamentary votes.
The text traces US flags from the Revolution through the Civil War and into the early republic. It notes numbers of stars over wars, Guilford Court House relics, the Bedford voyage, Lexington flags, bunting origins, Butler’s 1866 US-made flag, Old Glory’s naming, and a late Revolutionary era boardinghouse flag conflict in Greenwich.
In a British evacuation at noon on November 25 1783 Mrs Day raised the American flag before her home. Major Cunningham ordered her to lower it and when refused, he tried himself. She beat him with a broom and kept the flag aloft as the town prepared to depart.
The 1672 release of John Bunyan from Bedford jail ends a long confinement during which he wrote and deepened his religious beliefs. Born near Bedford in 1628, Bunyan’s early life was rough and obscure, but his wife’s piety spurred a personal reformation and his rise as a Baptist preacher. His imprisonment began after the Restoration when he refused to conform to official church forms, and he famously said if released he would preach again the next day.
Ex Queen Sophia of Greece born in Berlin fifty years ago. Frederick Guest treasurer to King George's household born forty five years ago. Jian McCormack renowned tenor born Athlone Ireland thirty six years ago. John J. Glennon archbishop of St Louis born Meath Ireland fifty eight years ago. Roger Bresnahan manager Toledo baseball club born Tralee Ireland forty years.
One year ago today Holland refused to join a threatened blockade of Germany. Capt Alcock and Lieut Brown started from St John’s Newfoundland in an attempted trans Atlantic flight to Ireland.
Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin turns sixty five today. An independent with nominally Republican leadership in the U S Senate for years he has led a strong personal following and was repeatedly linked with presidential nomination talks. A Wisconsin native he began his career as a prosecuting attorney and later served in state politics and national leadership.
The excerpt traces a political career from Congress into the Republican fold with signs of insubordination. It notes a 1901 Wisconsin gubernatorial victory leading to 1907 and a governor who enacted influential state legislation. It mentions a 1905 national Senate seat and repeated rejections by foes.
Regional associations hold conventions today including San Francisco Western Osteopathic, Des Moines Iowa Retail Dry Goods Dealers, Winnipeg Manitoba Methodist Conference, Muskogee Christian Endeavor Societies of Oklahoma, Jackson Mississippi Insurance Agents, Salem Oregon Bankers, Placerville Fraternal Order of Eagles California, Niagara Falls Fraternal Order of Eagles New York, and Oxford Ohio Music Teachers Association. News-Star ads promise results.
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