Cane inscribed REMEMBER THE MAINE OUR HEROES DEWEY SCHLEY HOBSON. An unknown artist created this cane to memorialize the American battleship Maine, which was blown up in Havana Harbor, Cuba, in 1898. This incident inspired the slogan “Remember the Maine,” and started the Spanish-American War (Lynda Hartigan, Made with Passion, 1990).

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