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Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed
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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (304033)3/18/2005 12:31:29 PM
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History lesson:
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Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a devout socialist and Baptist minister created the Pledge of Allegiance for the Boston based Youth's Companion in 1892. Youth's Companion was a nationally circulated family-oriented publication, and by 1892 was the largest publication of any type in the United States, with a circulation around 500 thousand. His cousin Edward Bellamy is better known as the author of the socialist utopian novels, Looking Backward (1888) and Equality (1897).

Daniel Ford and James Upham, Bellamy's nephew, owned Youth's Companion, and approached Bellamy for a pledge to support a marketing campaign they had for American flags. In 1888, Youth's Companion had begun a campaign to sell American flags to public schools. By 1892, the magazine had sold American flags to approximately 26 thousand schools. However, by this time the market was slowing for flags, but not yet saturated.....
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