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...drew for it the quarterback position on an all-American newspaper team assembled by the journalistic department of the University of Illinois. It has also won the honor of having more tightlipped, tight-mouthed New Englanders scan it crossly, not over three-minute eggs, but after breakfast on the porch. Dutifully read by New England-bred Calvin Coolidge, it has more recently won the honor of being termed "the President's Bible...
...Paris last week the priest of the Chapel of St. Christophe, went out on the chapel porch and blessed the array of private motor cars, taxicabs, trucks, motor cycles, bicycles, wagons, drays, trundle-carts waiting there. It was the day of St. Christophe, whose relics are in the chapel. According to legend St. Christophe carried Jesus on his shoulders and has been designated patron saint of travelers and vehicles...
...desired voice merely by turning his ear toward his neighbors in the north. ¶"Snip!" went shears in the hands of John Mays, White House valet, "snip, snip, snip!" The President was having his hair cut. Not unduly selfconscious, the President had the operation performed on the State Lodge porch while, despatches reported, "many tourists stopped to gaze at the sight." ¶ Prudence Prim, pet white collie of Mrs. Coolidge, died at Fort Meade, S. Dak. Cause: Distemper with complications. ¶Inasmuch as President Coolidge usually does not attend meetings at which a Democrat is the principal speaker, his ears...
...East. While Washington thermometers read 88° and New York's 84°, those in Rapid City danced about 96°. Even the trout stopped biting, and, though the President made no complaint of the heat, he discarded his coat and sat shirt-sleeved on the State Lodge porch. From the heat waves rose rumors, unconfirmed, that the President might shorten his western visit, leave for the East about the middle of August, spend a few weeks in Vermont before returning to Washington...
...State Game Lodge (the park is owned by South Dakota) with more than 30 rooms was last week being prepared for the President's occupancy. Past its porch elk, sheep and deer are reputed to stroll. Almost at its door is a stream stocked with rainbow trout -a fish far more sportive than Adirondack pike. As to temperature, Senator Norbeck assured the President that he would "sleep under blankets." The business headquarters of the President will be at Rapid City, some 32 miles away. Here newspapermen will be located (not altogether to their liking as Rapid City is less...