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...President announced last week that he and Mrs. Coolidge are very fond of their wild swarm of bees. However, the President does not eat honey because it once made him sick when he was a little boy. As for the raccoon, which was sent to the President from Nitta Yuma, Miss. (TIME, Dec. 6), it has won its way into the Presidential affection and will not be sent to the zoo. An eternal coonship has been founded...
...President Coolidge by the Italian Ambassador. Titina, sophisticated fox terrier who had seen the North Pole, accompanied General Nobile, but scurried out of one of the White House windows before greeting the President. ¶Does President Coolidge eat raccoon meat? No. A full-grown male raccoon, sent from Nitta Yuma, Miss., with the hope that it would be a pièce de résistance for the Presidential table, is now frisking about in the White House cellar. Soon it will probably be despatched to the Rock Creek Zoo in Washington...