The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-01

n TANY events of national and even worldwide
L l. Fourth Of july. While the signing Of the
splendid Declaration Of independence far and the
most significant and important of these events other
things have happened couns natal day of which
the youth of the land should take note.
1t might interest many to know that our national
hymn, America, - was sung for the first time the
Fourth of July in the city of Boston This
year 1882 and the occasion Sunday school concert
in the Park street church in Boston Dr. s. F. Smith,
then young divinity student at Andover, Boston,
had written the hymn dreary February day and had
sent it to his FRIEND Lowell Mason the most prominent
in the musical circles of day Within the shad
of this church lie all that is mortal Of
early governors of Massachusetts, many the men
who helped lay the foundation of our great republic
1t the Fourth of July in the year 1893 that
John Quincy Adams the sixth president of the United
states made his first public speech and from that he
of mark in the country AS little lad of IL
years he had gone with his mother to the summit Of
Penn HILL his humble home eight miles from Bos
burning in Charlestown battle of Bunker HILL and
he used to gallop into Boston horseback bring his
strongly loyal and patriotic mother Abibai Adams
from his father, who attending the congress in Phil
adelphia. - 80 + 8 =.
Hawthorne admitted by many to be the greatest
novelist America has ever produced, born in the
quaint old town of Salem Massachusetts, the Fourth
of July, in the year 1904. ~
It the Fourth of July, in the year 1877 when
work commenced the Erie cana, which was
garded by the people of that day stupendous under
Two ex-presidents of the United States died on the
Fourth Of July in the year 1926. One John Adams
second of the United States and the other
died few hours before Adams, but Adams did not
know it, and his last words were Jefferson still
vives' :: -~ -..'.ef
On this same day there came into the world a man
whose songs delight thousands of his countrymen
in coming years. This Stephen Foster, author Of
''Suwanee River.' H.
The beginning of great American railway system
the Fourth of July in the year 1925 when Thomas
Carroll the last survivor Of all the sgners the Deca
ration of Independence laid the of the
railroad in America. ~. ~ ....-~-sr +. -
third president of the United States James Mon
died he Fourth Of .N1v in tho Tho
stone of the great Washington monument at
national capital laid the Fourth of July, in the
year 1913, but the monument not completed until
the year 1884 It is in the most remarkable
in America and it is the highest
the world Altho it is not all ornate, it's cost has been
$1,1s7 ,710.s1 - $3.50 a. s,...g
One of the greatest fires in the history Eng
land occurred the Fourth of july in the year 1885, at
Portland, Maine. It caused by frecraeker.
Vcksburg surrendered to General Grant the Fourth
of July, the year 1861 and it on the Fourth Of
July in the year 1885, when America that Cerve
"a feet had been destroyed in the Spanish American war
No other day tn all the year means to the
American people than nosy-too nosy--Fourth
Of July-fhe day celebrate.
An Immigrant from Romance -