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Died. Payne Whitney, 52, sports-man-financier; younger (by three years) brother of Harry Payne Whitney; son of the late Secretary of the Navy (1885-89) William Collins Whitney; son-in-law of the late Secretary of State (1898-1905) John Hay; from a heart attack, while playing tennis; at Manhasset, N. Y. In 1924 he paid the third largest income tax in the U. S., John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Henry Ford surpassing...
...memory the swearing-in of Calvin Coolidge as President of the U. S.* Newspapers and feature writers united in picturing the scene?the simple Vermont farmhouse, the President's father administering the oath, the old-fashioned lamp whose rays illumined the occasion. Like later pictures of Mr. Coolidge cutting hay with a scythe, it was a demonstration of democracy in the high places, of a President's kinship with his people...
...Calvin Coolidge during the President's Vermont days, told Tarn-many Leader George W. Olvany that he was against the President, wished to organize a Smith boom. He said that the famed kerosene lamp was obsolete, had been purchased at wholesale in 1867. He asked why President Coolidge scythed hay when he might well have used a mowing machine. Terming himself an "agricultural expert," he may have felt that Vermont farm life had been represented as unduly primitive. He said that many another old neighbor shared his opposition to four more years of Calvin Coolidge...
...poor miller who dabbled in philosophy and science, Isaac Hudson Maxim was born in Orneville, Me. In his youth he pitched hay and won fame as wrestler at county fairs; but at home his sister, Lucy, four years older, could throw him with ease. The Maxims were a hardy clan. After an elementary study of chemistry at the old Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Hudson went into the printing business, soon invented a color process for the Evening Journal of Pittsfield, Mass. This newspaper was the first in the U. S. to print a daily edition in colors...
...acres pasture 24 acres woodland 13 acres corn 11 acres hay 8 acres wheat 6 acres oats, alfalfa...