PROCLAMATION / [followed by a cut, 1 ½ x 2 ¾ inches, picturing a squad of soldiers marching in formations, rifles with fixed bayonets on shoulders, and two paragraphs of text, announcing that the local Company I would be leaving for the combat zone tomorrow and calling on all citizens to close up shop to attend a reception for the soldiers that evening and to send them off with a rally at the train depot in the morning]. Signed in type "C.M. Wilkinson, Mayor." Albert Lea
1898 · (MN)
(MN): Standard Print, 1898. Printed broadside, 10 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches, the title in bold large letters. Such local patriotic broadsides for the Spanish-American War are quite scarce. Not recorded on OCLC. Poor quality paper browned, but very good. (Inventory #: 65436)