. Book of the Royal blue . company issued a special menu for use ondining cars of its Royal Limited trainsbetween New York, Philadelphia, Baltimoreand Washington for that day. Accompany-ing the menu and, in fact, a part of it, underone binding, was a beautifully illustratedbooklet, entitled Our Flag, written byFrancis Scott Key, III. The booklet con-sists of sixteen beautiful colored pages, eachpage presenting a picture of some importantevent in the history of the Stars and Stripes. The booklet was most appropriate for useon the Royal Limited, which passesthrough each one of the cities which w
. Book of the Royal blue . company issued a special menu for use ondining cars of its Royal Limited trainsbetween New York, Philadelphia, Baltimoreand Washington for that day. Accompany-ing the menu and, in fact, a part of it, underone binding, was a beautifully illustratedbooklet, entitled Our Flag, written byFrancis Scott Key, III. The booklet con-sists of sixteen beautiful colored pages, eachpage presenting a picture of some importantevent in the history of the Stars and Stripes. The booklet was most appropriate for useon the Royal Limited, which passesthrough each one of the cities which wereso prominent in the history of the flag. The accompanying miniature illustrationsand text-matter of the story of Our Flagis printed by permission of the publisher,H. C. Brown, 156 Fifth Avenue, New YorkCity, from whom copies of the booklet canbe obtained at a nominal price: OUR FLAG BY FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, III. It is not generally known, and comes asa surprise to most Americans to realize, thatthe Stars and Stripes is the
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