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Before The Flag

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
June
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

In a certain New York mission is a bright street fellow, who, if this incident may be taken as an indication, bids fair to develop the brains and the patriotic sentiment of a good American citizen. A gentleman announced nis intention of delivering an address on political reform in the neighborhood of the missioD, a particularly disorderly district. He and his friends were informed on good authority that if the speech were made the speaker vrould be pelted with rotten eggs. It seemed that the proposed address. which, it had been believed, would exert an important influence, must be given np. A small boy, between whom and the speaker a friendship had developed at the mission, solved the difficulty by an ingenious expedient. "I teil you what to do," said he; "hang the American flag back of the platform, and you stand before the flag. The roughs won't throw eggs at the stars and stripes."

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Courier