Word: brule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beautiful trees, abundant game, and trout-500,000 of them, stocked, bred, liver-fed for 30 years -brook trout, lake trout, steelhead trout -yes, even rainbow trout. President Coolidge announced his decision abruptly; said he would hold the Budget meeting early, on June 11 and leave immediately afterwards for Brule, Wis., for Cedar Island Lodge and cool woods, seclusion, trout. Summer White House Inspector Starling sped back to Wisconsin to put all in readiness...
...late Mr. Pierce fancied troutfishing so keenly that he had the produce of his fish-hatcheries and nurseries graded by size and put into 17 pools or "holes" in the Brule River flowing north through his property. Wire screens which bob up into place again after a boat passes over them, separate the pools. Brush and windfalls are so dense along the river's banks that fishing is impossible except from a boat. A onetime employe of the late Mr. Pierce says the Brule trout used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take...
About 29 miles away (northwest) is Superior, Wis., on Lake Superior. There, in the high school, will be President Coolidge's office. Governor Fred Zimmerman of Wisconsin swiftly promised to mend the red clay roads in the northwestern corner of his State. Six miles from the Lodge is Brule, a five-street village (unpaved) inhabited by 200 Finnish fishermen. Four miles beyond Brule is Lake Nebagamon and the Congregational Church and Rev. John Taylor. Mr. Taylor is blind, uses a Bible printed in Braille. Perhaps Mr. Taylor will be taken for a cruise on the Navy cutter that will...
...Brule decision, while the most sensational event in President Coolidge's last week, was not the most significant to citizens. The day Congress rose, the President signed 236 bills and resolutions. Some new laws...