Library of Congress · resource:sn78000873/1918-12-05/ed-1:page:6
Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 5, 1918
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A Prize Essay for Peace Day Wednesday Nov 27th was observed as Peace Day in all the Massachusetts High schools All the pupils in the Som erville High school were required to writeessays on the theme the best one in each class to be read before a school of 2500 pupils Miss Charlotte B Wads worth a junior wrote the following which was selected from 300 by the spe cial committee Miss Wadsworth is the daughter of Mr Edward A Wadsworth of Belfast and is living with her grand father George W Burkett while attend ing the Somerville High school Americas Part in the War Hundreds of years from now school children all over the civilized world will be carefully memorizing the date April 6 1917 that date which to all of us means and has meant so much We need not memorize it we have lived it It was very still in the great hall of Congress on that sixth of April 1917 Every available seat was filled The galleries were crowd ed the quiet was so intense it was al most visible as President Wilson read those momentous words declaring war on Germany Every possible effort had been
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maine state library. 1918-12-05. Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), December 5, 1918. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn78000873/1918-12-05/ed-1/?sp=6
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