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...Coolidge pressed a miniature gold spike into a peculiar contrivance; the two Senators and the five Representatives from the state of Washington stood by in rapt attention; almost instantaneously wheels began to go around in a municipal power plant at Tacoma, Wash. Next day Mrs. Coolidge took up a trowel and smeared a great big stone all over with mortar?not just the usual lady-like dab?and the Y. W. C. A. then had laid the cornerstone of their new building in Washington...
...limitation of naval armaments assembled in Washington, when Woodrow Wilson, broken in health, retired from the old white mansion at 1601 Pennsylvania Ave. and went to live quietly in a house on S Street in the northwestern part of Washington?Vice President Dawes, taking in his hand an historic trowel, laid a great marble slab upon a steel casket containing masonic emblems...
...Club of Columbus, Ohio, the boys' band of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home gave musical selections. Representatives of many fraternal lodges to which the late President belonged deposited emblems of their orders in the steel casket set in the cement foundation. Then Mr. Dawes, with the very trowel which the Mason-President last used?at Ketchikan, Alaska, in laying the cornerstone of a masonic lodge?placed the marble slab in place...
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...corner of 14th and F Streets, Washington, there stood, early in the week, a low wall of bricks somewhat jagged at one end President Coolidge approached, took a trowel and spread some additional plaster with difficulty. "It won't spread well", he remarked with a trace of annoyance. Then he stood back to survey the cornerstone he had laid, put aside the silver trowel...