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...President Hoover performed a herculean labor by cleaning out of the White Stables. Seven mounts were returned to the cavalry post at Fort Myer, Va. Three Army hostlers went back to regular service. The sum of $15,000 was saved. These White House horses which nobody rode were quartered in the Army quartermaster stables at 19th Street and Virginia Avenue, N. W. In 1924 Calvin Coolidge, in a plain business suit and panama hat, once mounted a black charger named General, cantered through Potomac Park, was duly photographed for the campaign. Never again did he use a live horse...
...Coolidge, Secretary of War Davis, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Major General Fox Conner, Acting Chief of Staff of the Army, and Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Chief of Naval Operations. Suddenly the morning sky was riven by the 21-gun presidential salute from an artillery battery at Fort Myer. Just before 11 a.m. the party entered the gates of Arlington Cemetery and proceeded on foot to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A band played "The Star Spangled Banner." The President advanced flanked by the Secretaries of War and the Navy. He deposited a large wreath of white Chrysanthemums upon...
...General Plutarco Elias Calles arrived in Washington and rode about under the protection of a troop of U..S. Cavalry from Fort Myer. One of his calls was on Mr. Coolidge. Next day General Calles returned to lunch with the President and with Secretaries Hughes and Mellon. He was attended by officials of the Mexican Embassy...
Robert Allen, of Cliftondale, Saugus High; Alfred Barber, of Framingham Center, Framingham High; Myer Brody, of East Dedham, Dedham High; John Stenberg, of Brighton, Boston Latin, Charles Engelhardt, of Somerville, Somerville High...
...Briggs Corner, N. B., Woodie Knox, 20, and Freda Myer, 11, were refused by several ministers before they found the Rev. R. Crandall, Baptist, who married them, making Freda "the youngest white bride on record...