... blackened spot or the starch will appear as a white dab. Independence Day. It is interesting to know that if John Adams had had his way, July 2nd, and not July 4th, would have been regarded as Independence Day in America. Adams wrote to his wife after the vote ...

... Beunos Aires is a noble city, and the Avenida lends itself admirably to festival displays, and the best of these is their Independence Day. A straight flat wide avenue of about a mile long, it is festooned with variegated lamps, across and along the whole ...