1 pp 1912
Item is titled “Lawrence’s Flag parade” and continues to read “Columbus Day Saturday, Oct. 12, ’12. 32,000 enthusiastic paraders, with 14 divisions and 20 bands. Viewed by 65,000 people, everybody carrying the glorious stars and stripes”. There are 6 photographs: “Menders and burlers from the Wood and Washington Mills pledging allegiance to the flag”; “Ald. Maloney Mayor’s secretary O’Connell pinning flag buttons on young ladies at City Hall”; Brig. Gen. W.H. Donovan, Chief Marshall of the parade”; The living flag presented by girls from Father James T. O’Reilly’s parish”; The parade passing in review on Common Street”; The raising of Old Glory on the Common, by Commander John N. Towle, Post 39, G.A.R. Lawrence, Massachusetts. Printed by Rushforth’s Critic Press, 246 Essex St., Lawrence, Mass. In the upper left hand photo (partially missing) the banner reads “For God and country the stars and stripes forever. The red flag never! A protest against the I.W.W., its principles and its methods”.
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