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...east end of the hall are three abrupt steps up. Beside them, in the hall's southeastern corner, once sat "Bill" Price of the Washington Star, first of all Washington newsgatherers to make a serious enterprise, under McKinley, of "covering" the President. All newsmen have long since been banished from the inner White House. Until Roosevelt's time, the President's executive offices were up the three steps, filling all second-story space over the East Room. The East Room's extra height elevates the second floor here, thus lowering the sills of the upstairs windows...
...Schaefer, a graduate of Oberlin College. The Robert T. Swaine Scholarship was won by R. C. Westgate 26. The Buchanan Scholarship was won by R. H. Guthrie, a graduate of The Citadel. Two Class of 1913 Scholarships were won by F. H. Heiss and W. A. Page, graduates of Southeastern University and Stanford University, respectively...
...reptiles. He found only 19 kinds of them. Thirteen belonged to the rattler (Crotalus) family. Others were massasauga and pigmy rattler (Sistrurus family), copperhead and cottonmouth moccasin (Agkistrodon family), coral and harlequin (Micrurus family). Harlequins and corals are rare, appearing only in the south. Moccasins and copperheads frequent the southeastern and eastern states...
...Southeast offers to gunners. Almost anywhere from Virginia to mid-Florida, quail abound. Wild-fowling in the Carolinas-duck, geese, brant-is a sport of moderate temperatures, unlike the cold-blown shooting of northern rivers and bays. When Mr. Hoover visits Mr. Penney at Belle Isle shortly, accounts of Southeastern fishing will doubtless go forth, though the tarpon, greatest of Southeastern game-fish, is caught off Florida's west coast...
Alabama raises the most Southeastern cotton; Georgia second...