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...John Coolidge, after spending a weekend at Madison, Wis., as guest of President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, was asked how he passes the time at Cedar Island Lodge. Said he: "Eat breakfast. Take a little walk. Read. Eat lunch. Walk. Read. Eat dinner. Walk. Read...
President Coolidge celebrated the close of his fifth year in office with a short railroad trip. It is only about a three-hour journey from Cedar Island lodge to a place called Hibbing in the Minnesota hinterland. Thither the President journeyed in a special train provided by U. S. Steel Corp., a train that had been examined and guarded with utmost care for 48 hours before its great passenger went aboard. Steel Corporation guards were posted at switches and trestles. Some 700 American Legion men were mobilized for guard duty at stations. No spectator was allowed to approach within...
...learned his fly-book by heart, casting on the brown Brule stream. As July petered out and the level of the waters dropped a little in the dry weather, the Brule's inhabitants grew hungrier and hungrier. There came an evening when the President canoed home to Cedar Island Lodge with no less than 26 trout. This was one more than Wisconsin's legal limit but Wisconsin took no action. From trout-fishing, the President, one evening, turned to "plugging" for black bass. Guide John Laroque piloted him over the glassy sunset surface of Island Lake, 20 miles...
...President Senior Augusto B. Leguia of Peru on the latter's 107th anniversary. ¶ In Manhattan, for Calvin Coolidge from Benito Mussolini arrived a heavy parchment-bound book, two feet square, entitled La Basilica di San Francesco d' Assisi, full of pictures of that famed church. At Cedar Island Lodge arrived four curiously wrought pieces of iron with holes punched in them. They were left by one A. H. Kellerman, 70-year-old Wisconsin farmer, who said: "Just give these to the President and ask him if he knows what they are." President Coolidge took one look...
...Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur and Thomas Cochran, partner'in J. P. Morgan and Co., arrived at Cedar Island Lodge as guests of President Coolidge. Secretary Wilbur talked about Nicaragua...