Past Pages for Saturday, July 4, 2015

150 Years AgoFlag staff raising. On the Fourth of July, a new flag staff, 150 feet high, will be raised on the Plaza. Two hundred strong hands will be needed to help. There will be all sorts of good things to drink, eat and smoke. “Rally around the flag” staff and help to erect our Fourth of July monument ...130 Years AgoLocal notes. There is talk of forming a company to engage in sinking artesian wells. Someone has invented a whole set of bedclothes made of paper, to cost 75 cents a set. If