Grandma's "Every-Day Cook-Book" #4: FOURTH OF JULY 1910

 (Smith/Post)

Happy 4^th of July, 1910

Tucked between pages 8 and 9 of my Grandma Smith’s “Every-Day Cook-Book,” is a small flag with the date ‘July 4^th 1910’ penciled-in along the margin. My grandfather, L. Vern Smith, would have been 13 years old at the time this Independence Day memento was given out, perhaps, at a Fourth of July parade in their hometown of Milan, Michigan. 

How Main Street, Milan Michigan looked circa 1910. (MPL)

Although it is difficult to tell, this 1910 flag has only 46 stars, representing the number of states that then made up the United States of America. (New Mexico and Arizona would gain statehood two years later; Alaska and Hawaii would join the Union in 1959.)

("America-My Country 'Tis of Thee") found on page 500 of my 1905 copy of The Methodist Hymnal

 

(Main Street photo-source: here) Milan Public Library