In Manhattan, a suddenly patriotic mob of pedestrians booed, hissed, cried: "If you were a man we'd lynch you!" at a woman being hustled out of a restaurant by policemen. The woman was Mrs. Harriet Fowler, owner of the building, who, having ordered her tenant, the restaurant manager, to remove U. S. flags decorating the building, and having been refused, had seized scissors, hacked one U. S. flag in two. In court this woman said: "I thought it was only a piece of bunting." In court another woman said: "I don't see...
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