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...President and his wife walked up to their old homestead, where they were warmly greeted by the housekeeper, Aunt Aurora Pierce. After a light supper at candlelight, they sat silently on the porch as the sun sank behind beloved Vermont hills. Now and again old-timers would stop in to pass the time of day, whereupon the President would rise, shake hands, sit again-rock-rock, rock-rock...
...Where is a "swell place for one of those front porch campaigns...
...Newspaper correspondents, lolling on the porch at Paul Smith's Hotel, were wishing something would happen. Something did. Leonard Smith of the New York Evening Post and Alfred H. Kerchhofer of the Buffalo Evening News canoed, capsized, found the lake waters icy, heard the rescuing put-put of several motor boats. Ever-attendful Major J. F. Coupal, the President's physician, ordered the conoeist-correspondents...
...Muskegon, Mich., a letter carrier delivered a small, heavy package at the Three Lakes Tavern, August Krubaech, prop. Mr. Krubaech was arranging his cigaret counter. His daughter Jeanette and her lover, William Frank (they were to be married before the week was up), giggled and smoked on the porch. The package they knew must hold a wedding present. Proprietor Krubaech unwrapped it, while Jeanette leaned over the counter to look with William Frank at her elbow. He got the string off, undid one fold of paper, another, then-a terrific explosion broke every window in the Three Lakes Tavern, wrecked...
...crowded with ghosts is the porch, and crowded the court...