Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incapacity of Mrs. Harding caused the President to cancel even a partial trip over the Richardson Trail by automobile, as had been planned. The day after arriving in Fairbanks, the President and the chief members of his party spoke in the baseball park at Fairbanks. The temperature was 94° in the shade, and there were three cases of heat prostration in the audience. Mr. Harding declared that he felt himself to be a real sourdough, because he was the first President to visit Alaska. A part of the ceremonies was the presentation of a moose-hide collar, ornamented with gold...
Following these events, Secretary Wallace and Speaker Gillett took autos to follow the original plan of the party by traveling over the Richardson Trail and taking the Copper River Railroad to Cordova. Secretaries Work and Hoover took train back to Anchorage and later to Seward to hold hearings on the complaints and proposals of Alaskans. The President and Mrs. Harding followed the two latter in a more leisurely fashion...
...Henderson sailed once more. Contrary to schedule she put in at Skagway. Skagway is now a village of about 500 inhabitants but once it had 20,000 people and was the starting point of the famous White Horse Trail in the days of the great gold rush to the Yukon. The President went to the chief hotel and delivered a short address, reviewing the history of the town. Mrs. Harding was presented with a bouquet of dahlias, each flower almost a foot in diameter. There the President became a member of the Arctic Brotherhood and took an oath never...
Onward - during the night - to Meacham, Ore., went the Presidential party. There in the hamlet on the old Oregon Trail, high up in the Blue Mountains, the President was treated to a pageant in honor of the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Trail. Oregon would like the Federal Government to make the Trail a great highway. The state has also a $50,-000,000 irrigation plan for the Government, known as the Umadillo project...
...local color there were log cabins, specially built for the occasion, and one correspondent recorded that the Indians employed were released from jail where they had been imprisoned for violating the Volstead Act. There the President delivered an address on the opening of the Oregon Trail, telling the dramatic story of the missionary, Marcus Whitman, and adding, "If it isn't true, it ought...