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...been made with the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. after John and his father had decided that railroading would be a good thing to learn, from the bottom up. Mrs. Coolidge spent Labor Day getting John's things packed up and sitting with him on the porch. His mother and father knew how hard on John the Publicity thing could be. Secret Service Man Russell Wood, the boy's constant companion, had orders to guard against and censor all importune press photographs...
...which the original part was a log cabin, where, 54 years and eleven days before, Herbert Clark Hoover had been born. A Mrs. Jennie Scellars, who now owns the house and has declined to sell it to Mrs. Hoover, served up an oldtime Iowa breakfast. On her front porch she drove a fast trade in what a wag called "Hoovernirs...
...hypocrisy. ¶Mrs. Coolidge shopped in Superior for a pair of bedroom slippers. One of her red ones had been chewed up by Rob Roy.* That old collie had inadvertently been left in the Brule bedroom while the Coolidge family watched a cinema on the dining room porch. Mrs. Coolidge, kind, told reporters how she had later caught Rob Roy under the bed, but had lacked the heart to chastise him with the un-chewed red slipper...
Lazy skeptics and whining peg-legs, when they read this fluent and elaborate narrative, shook their heads in complete disparagement. "The lying scamp," they murmured, "a front porch he could climb." The London Times, however, believed Pegleg Winthrop, published his story and an editorial, "... a brave man to treat disablement in the War as a spur, not a curb...
...pleased and pleasant President Coolidge who led Nominee Hoover to a chair on the porch of the Summer White House and sat him down to give the public photographers an inning...