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The Glorious Fourth

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
July
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Fourth was celebrated in Ann Arbor by the Landwehr Unterstuetzungs Verein at Relief Park with a flag dedication. The procession formed at the rink and proceeded to the park headed by the Detroit band. the Ann Arbor Rifles forty strong, the Detroit company of the Landwehr, the Arbeiter Verein, the SchwaebiEchen Verein and the Landwehr company. Patriotic speeches were made by Mayor William G. Doty and P. G. Suekey. A display of fireworks was made in the evening. About 150 Ann Arbor people went to Dexter to attend the celebration there and reported a very enjoyable time. A special train of open coal cars with plank seats took several hundred to Whitmore Lake, while a number of others went on the earlier train. A number of our citi.ens had private fireworks.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News