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...Plymouth, Vt. Miss Aurora Pierce, longtime Coolidge housekeeper, heard a tap on the homestead window. Allen Brown, a neighbor, was outside. She raised the sash to hear him say: "Calvin's dead, Aurora." She sat down in the room in which the 30th President of the U. S. had taken the oath from his father at 2:47 a. m., Aug. 3, 1923, and let her tears run in silent grief...
...swimmers in a three-day meet sponsored by Henry L. Doherty's new Florida Year-Round Clubs, at the Miami-Biltmore pool: nine new national records. Record-breakers: minnowy Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (300 yd. medley, 300, 400 and 440 yd. breaststroke) ; pretty Lenore Kight of Homestead, Pa. (400 yd. and 500 metre free style) ; muscular Margaret Hoffman of Scranton, Pa. (200 yd., 220 yd. and 200 metre breast stroke, the last two simul-taneously...
...Omaha last week re-elected John A. Simpson as their president for a third successive term. He was born in Nebraska exactly one year before Calvin Coolidge appeared in Vermont (July 4, 1872). When he was seven his father was killed by lightning. He practiced law until a homestead lottery took him to Oklahoma where he still has a 40-acre farm. He has spent years rabble-rousing farmers, reminding them of their woes, prodding them to action. In the last 15 years he has made more than 4,000 speeches to them, each of which, he explains, is based...
...presence of T. R. and to the accompaniment of a roaring Tammany parade outside. After attending fashionable Miss Spence's and Miss Chapin's Schools in Manhattan, she married aged 19. Four years later she found herself widowed, with two children, and on her way to homestead in New Mexico's Burro Mountains. When Copperman Greenway married her she was a full-fledged ranch operator. At Chicago, Mrs. Greenway. who shuns rouge & lipstick, seconded" the Roosevelt nomination, said that mention of her for the Vice-Presidency was "a purely honorary candidacy...
...Passed a bill to create a system of eight to twelve Federal home loan banks, each with capital of not less than $5,000.000 at which building & loan associations, cooperative banks, savings banks and homestead associations can discount mortgages of $20,000 or less; sent it to the Senate...