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...President and Mrs. Coolidge, attended by the President's secretary, physician, aides and secret service detail, took train in Washington one afternoon and traveled westward through Maryland and Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies and on to Chicago to address a convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Presidential party rode as the second section of a regular train, not in an ordinary Pullman drawing room as on his trip to Chicago a year ago to attend the annual Live Stock Exposition...
Near Syracuse, along the tracks of the New York Central, a night flyer sped westward. No whistles blew. No bell sounded. Faster and faster it glided, past green lights at little stations, red lights at crossings; and the clicking of the ties became a dreamy foxtrot drumming in the ears of people who twisted on lumpy mattresses in small green coffins in its shadowy Pullman cars. A suddenly frightened fireman stared out at the flying night, then made his way forward and peered into the engine cab. At the throttle was a hand- the steady hand of Engineer William Vanbergen...
After the game all cars parked within the Soldiers Field enclosure and on the Boston Parkway must leave by the Parkway westward. Cars parked within the enclosure on the Stadium Street side of Soldiers Field may, however, proceed west along North Harvard Street...
...pleasant evening when he set sail soaring up from Long Island, headed across to Jersey and westward toward Pennsylvania. Then there was a hiatus in the record. At midnight Bellefonte, Pa., (where there is the first relay field of the transcontinental air mail) began to look for him. Charles H. Ames was a veteran pilot, he was seldom late. An hour passed and the officials became a little anxious for the schedule of the mail. Clouds were lowering. Periodically there was rain. The telephone rang in a little hut at the emergency landing field at Hartleton, a few miles away...
...White Star Liner Majestic from Southampton. As the strike began to-develop, Americans in Europe were seized with a sudden and overpowering desire to go home. In a few days the bookings for the Majestic swelled from 1,700 to 2,300 -a. record number this year for the westward voyage. Bookings came in so rapidly that soon all accommodations were occupied. Men in'.the cloak and suit business who had been abroad buying and had to be back for fall openings, fell on their knees and implored officials for passage, offering two and three times the regular fare...