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...President Coolidge addressed the Ohio Society of Washington on the anniversary of the birthday of William McKinley, praised the six Presidents which Ohio has given to the country- Hayes, Garfield, McKinley, Taft, Harding. Chief Justice Taft presided. ¶ The President extended invitations to some 80 persons representing agriculture, banking, transportation, etc., to attend a conference in Washington on relieving farmers of distress by arrangements for refunding their pressing debts...
President Coolidge has a New-English way of telling a story for all his taciturnity. Speaking to the Ohio Society, he told a story of the Garfield-Hancock campaign...
...That was good, sound doctrine, I think; anyhow, it had to do for me. But I recall that the next morning after the election and as soon as the news reached our town that James A. Garfield had been chosen President I went to my father and told him the result indicated we were to continue a Republican administration and with that prospect in view I was able to secure the advance of the sum I had asked...
Among the guests were numbered John Coolidge and Calvin Coolidge, Jr., as well as their father, the President of the U. S.; also Abram, Irwin McDowell, Dr. Harry A. and James R. Garfield, sons of the late President; also Theodore, Archibald and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the late President; also Charles and Robert Taft, sons of the Chief Justice; also Richard Cleveland, son of the late President; also Colonel George Harvey; also Senator Magnus Johnson...
...would start a regular around-the-world passenger service. The " 502's " are 502-ft. steamers, with a gross register of 10,533 tons, with a speed of about 14 knots, oil burners and all " President" ships. They are the Presidents Polk, Adams, Van Buren, Monroe, Garfield, Hayes, Harrison. The five first are now plying between New York and London, a money-losing route, and will be supplanted by freight vessels as soon as the Summer tourist season is past. The two last are plying between the Pacific Coast and the east coast of South America...