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...President heard that his uncle John Wilder, 80, famed fiddler for diddling jigs and square dances, had signed up with four other natives of Plymouth, Vt., to tour U. S. vaudeville and cinema houses. William Morris, Manhattan theatrical manager, is booking them as an old-time barnstorming orchestra. They will open in Boston on Nov. 1, and return to Vermont in the spring in time to plant their crops...
...Dancers pirouetted in a Fisher's Hornpipe to the lilting strains of "Docey do two, docey do four" whanged out on a fiddle wielded by John Wilder, the President's 80-year-old uncle. Rustics from miles around assembled in the hall over Miss Florence Cilly's general store, looked the President over, obviously pleased that he had not become "dandified" since becoming an Olympus-dweller. Asked to dance, Mr. Coolidge refused. He has never danced...
...wife came down the lane, down the aisle, sat down. Few looked at them. . . . The rector spoke, modernistically, then made an appeal for money for new hymnals, since the old ones had been stolen by souvenir-seekers. The President gazed vaguely at his 80-year-old uncle, John Wilder, singing lustily in the chorus in spite of the fact that he had fiddled for dancers far into the night before. ¶While the President and Mrs. Coolidge tour hither, thither, architects and workmen swarm about the White House, make repairs. A new roadway is to be completed in the White...
...distinguished list of speakers, among them J. Stitt Wilson, Robert E. Speer, Henry Sloane Coffin, John R. Mott, Henry Hallam Tweedy, Robert P. Wilder, S. Wirt Wiley, James L. McConaughy, Francis P. Miller has been arranged...
...most prominent men who will lead the Conference are: Dr. G. R. Baker, C. S. Campbell, Dr. H. S. Coffin, Sam Higginbottom, C. E. Hurry, J. W. Macdonald, F. P. Miller, Dr. F. N. Seerley, Dr. R. E. Speer, Norman Thomas, Dr. H. H. Tweedy, Dr. R. P. Wilder, S. W. Wiley, the Honorable J. S. Wilson, and H. P. Van Dusen...