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...Deadwood, S. Dak., 300 strong men allowed their beards to grow long and bushy, for President Coolidge was coming to town. They wanted him to see Deadwood as it looked in the days of the gold rush, following 1876, when "Wild Bill" Hickock, "Deadwood Dick" and "Calamity Jane" were kicking up dust in its streets. A pageant was staged for President Coolidge, who gladly shook the wrinkled hand of aged "Deadwood Dick...
...Back in Rapid City, S. Dak., President Coolidge heard the complaint of a group of Indians from Quapaw, Okla., who said they had lost $60,000,000 worth of oil royalty rights through the acts of one-time (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall...
...Future. At their second meeting last week, newsgatherers at Rapid City, S. Dak., asked the President if he would press for a continuation, next year or in 1929, of the ineffectual disarmament conference just closing at Geneva (see p. 10). He emphatically reminded the newsgatherers that he would not be in the White House after March...
Governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota stood up at the state beauty contest at Yankton, S. Dak., to make a speech on the subject of the "World's Fair." Said he: "I did some talking lately and got into trouble. Therefore I am going to play safe tonight. It's a fine evening, isn't it. I am sure no one can disagree with that statement tonight. It is certainly a fine evening, isn't it? Good-night...
Newspaper correspondents were inclined to believe that Mr. McKelvie had become something in the nature of a White House spokesman. Last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 1) the President visited the McKelvie camp at Mystic, S. Dak., the only private invitation which President Coolidge has accepted. Mr. & Mrs. McKelvie were also the first overnight guests at the State Lodge. Also, Mr. McKelvie had been at the President's South Dakota Executive Office just before making his speech and was reported to have gone over it with Everett Sanders, Secretary to the President. Thus reporters, logical, deductive, concluded that he had officially . opened...