Philadelphia, May 31.
Showers of rain did not damp the centiiusinsm of the thousands of per-ons who attended the sesquicentennial celebration of America's me dependence, The proceedings opened with salute of 150 guns.
Inv. Kellogg, Secretary of State, and Mr. Hoover, Secretary of Com: mere, made speeches.
Mr. Kellogg assured his hearers that the spirit animating the found-cers of tie Republic was alive to-day, but America's reluctance to participate in war has often been shown Voth by her participation in international arms conferences and other ways in which she had encouraged the cause of pence—Reuter.
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