Sunday, July 5, 2009

July 4, 1905



Fascinating front page of the a href="http://www.footnote.com/spotlight/7155/battleship_potempkin_illustrated/"Atlanta Constitution from July 4, 1905./a Lead story was not Independence Day, and in fact I can't find a single reference to the holiday on the page; either it was not the practice at the time, or.... a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%27s_March_to_the_Sea"you know. /a It's good to see, however, that the mainstream media was once committed to round the clock battleship coverage.br /br /Happy Independence Day! Soon I shall be drinking the Bloody Marys of Liberty...div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-5017515515053844590?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div

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