June 30: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Briefly

The nation's stars and stripes will be rearranged and born anew on the Fourth of July. The United States will upon that day throw out to the breeze as its official flag the world around a banner that has never been seen before...Instead of that banner with its forty-six stars arranged in irregular lines, there will appear the new flag with its block of stars in six lines of eight stars each.
Preliminary tests of the specially built steel flat car on which the Liberty Bell will be transported across the continent to the California expositions were completed today...An electrical generator, installed beneath the platform, operated by the axle, will charge the batteries for the hundreds of incandescent lamps with which the bell will be illuminated during the nights on the journey.
Read at Brooklyn Eagle
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