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Again the party took the train and proceeded to Ludlow, Vt., from whence a funeral procession of automobiles went twelve miles overland along the narrow hill roads to Plymouth. A grave had been dug in the little cemetery, only a few hundred yards from the Coolidge homestead. It lay on a tree-covered knoll. The services were very brief-less than 15 minutes in length. The little Marine Guard saluted, as the bugler sounded taps...
Reclamation. Homestead entrymen in reclamation projects on arid and semi-arid lands of the West have suffered from extravagant inefficiencies and mistakes of the Federal Government. The Reclamation Act of 1924, attached as a rider to the second deficiency bill, was eliminated by the Republican conferees in reporting the bill an hour before adjournment...
Congratulations began to pour in at the Dawes homestead (in Marietta). He stayed there less than 24 hours after his nomination and then started for Chicago, which welcomed him with cheers. His wife and his two adopted children, Dana, 12 and Virginia, 10, met him. He hugged them all, went to his office at the Central Trust Co. for an hour, then went home to Evanston, puritanical northern suburb of Chicago, to which Mr. Dawes is something of a tin deity...
...them are due to his elder brother's business acumen unfortunately not equalled by his judgment. The name of Norquay is, in danger throughout the book, but Roderick, last of the line, manages to save it after a hard fight. But he has to sell the old Norquay homestead to do it, which it took five generations of doughty Norquays to put together. Andy Hall, one of those old philosophers without whom no logging camp is complete, has a theory which explains the title, if nothing else. It isn't important. The important things are Roderick's splendid moral character...
...dramatic scene in the sitting-room of an old-fashioned Yankee homestead at Plymouth, Vt., where in the early morning hours of Aug. 3, 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in by his father as 30th President of the U. S., will be commemorated in a painting by Walter Gilman Page of Boston, Chairman of the Massachusetts State Art Commission. Page has recorded all the details of the room-glass lamp, family Bible, old combination desk and bookcase, bowl of flowers, bay window and Col. John Coolidge himself-an interior full of pictorial, as well as historical, value...