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1890 Fourth of July Souvenir Program
Program

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PROGRAMME
--FOR--
FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION
--AT--
BLAIR, NEBRASKA.

Firing One Hundred Guns at Sunrise.
Reception of Visitors.  8 to 9 o'clock.
Music by Bands.
Forming in Procession for Parade at 9:30, by Marshall W. T. Plowman, with Assistants as follows:  At High School, on Colfax Street, at intersection of Walker Avenue, facing East; March East to Seventh Street, North to Grant, West to Fourth, North to Front, and West to R.R. Park.
Music by the Blair Cornet Band.
Address of Welcome by Mayor W. D. Haller.
Song--Grand Chorus--Sixty Voices.
Prayer, Rev. G.W. Wainwright, D.D.
Song--Grand Chorus
ORATION--GENERAL C.H. VAN WYCK.
Song--Grand Chorus
Music by the Band.
Basket Dinner to 1:30 p.m.
Calithumpians and Trades Display--Parade under Command of John Limoge.  Followed by Foot Races, Mule Races, Sack Races, Fat Men's Race-- between Parks on Walker Avenue.
At 4 P.M. the Ladies Grand National March will take place at R.R. Park, on a large platform, specially erected for that purpose, on which the Goddess of Liberty will appear, accompanied by Fifty Young Ladies in Elegant Costumes, representing all the States and Territories.
At eight o'clock A Grand Pyrotechnical Pageant will form at the Court House and March up Walker Avenue to Washington Street, West to Fifth, South to Colfax, East to the Four-Story Castle Tower from the top of which will appear the Fire-Works Display.