We thank our friend Lillian Reid of the Healdsburg Peace Project for sending a link to this book by native son Julius Myron Alexander, descendant of pioneer Cyrus Alexander.
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We credit the Healdsburg Museum and Historical Society's book Healdsburg for this information about Julius Myron Alexander: Julius Myron
Alexander designed a banner to promote world peace, prior to the outbreak of World War I. In September 1914, the Healdsburg Tribune described 'a monster peace gathering' in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park at which his Peace Flag was first unfurled. Sixteen young ladies, in costumes of different nations, marched behind Miss Liberty bearing the Peace Flag. At the peak of the ceremony, they each released a single white dove, while the Peace Flag was waved in front of a crowd of 100,000 people singing 'The Star Spangled Banner.'"
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