Word: brule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge put in an appearance at his offices in the Superior, Wis., high school. He was brown and fatter. He had no news. He soon returned to Brule and for the next two days Superior had nothing better to talk about than "Old Mountain," a legendary trout of monster proportions (35 Ibs. and up) which is supposed to live where the Presidential flies are now dropping. On the President's second office visit, he received some St. Paul and Minneapolis businessmen who felt obliged to him for signing a bill this spring to extend a Government barge line...
...cordon of police and several plain-clothes men escorted John Coolidge through Chicago, Brule-bound. He reached his family in time to go with them to blind John Taylor's tiny Congregational Church. Just before his sermon Mr. Taylor said: "I take this opportunity of wishing President Coolidge a very happy birthday and many, many happy returns." As everyone knew, Calvin Coolidge would be 56 on the Fourth of July...
...rain turned to warm fog, then back to rain. President Coolidge did not visit his office in the high school at Superior. Col. Lindbergh was reported flying to Brule from Madison, Wis., but he flew on over, landed at St. Paul. One newsgatherer got desperate and hired Carl Miller, a nephew of Guide La Roque, to paddle him seven miles down the Brule from a place called Stone Bridge. Past beaver houses, mink holes, deer licks, naked rampikes, swarms of mosquitoes and a military outpost, who carefully examined the voyageurs, the newsgatherer came to a thin hedge screening the river...
Plans. It was learned that Mr. Hoover planned to go to Brule on July 2 and spend Independence Day with President Coolidge. But this plan was abandoned when the President let it be known that he wanted no guests until August. The notification ceremony at Palo Alto, Calif., was tentatively set for August 10, the Beaver Man's 54th birthday. Then the date was changed to the last week in July...
...Theron F. Pierce, presidential landlords, sailed on the Mauretania to remain until the President and Mrs. Coolidge. model tenants, leave Brule, Wis., and return to the White House...