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...Year's Day the President & guests attended services at the Royal Poinciana Community Chapel, spent an hour driving about Palm Beach in a borrowed car. Early next morning he boarded a train to return to Washington and the last 59 days of his term in the White House. ¶ With the President absent, the White House offices were cleaned and painted for his successor. Because of the President-elect's lameness, short ramps will replace steps at the side door of the executive offices leading to the White House and in the east end of the second-floor...
Died. Dr. George Morgan Ward, 71, president emeritus of Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. (president 1895-1903, 1916-20), onetime (1903-12) president of Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., winter pastor at the Royal Poinciana Chapel of Palm Beach; of heart disease; in Palm Beach...
...seacoast cities of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Delray, Boynton, Jupiter and Stuart were glutted with wreckage. At Palm Beach many fastidiously designed homes (Stotesbury, Wanamaker, Frazier) became ugly shards of architecture. The seaside Royal Poinciana, famed hostelry of social idlers, was totally wrecked. The Breakers, newer, more substantial, lost the roofs of its north and south wings. But on the seacoast few lives were lost...