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W. A. Wetzell,
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The July Wide Awake gives to its subscribers a fine photogravure of French’s famous statue of the Minute Man at Concord, Mass. It accompanies the stirring ballad of “The Minute Men” by Margaret Sidney, commemorative of “the Shot Heard Round the World.”
The Southern custom of “Strawberry Day” is celebrated in a poem in the July Wide Awake by Susan Coolidge; the large strawberry-growers of some sections having established the beautiful observance of giving the first day’s pickings to the sick and the poor.
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