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From Ormond to Miami through the lagoons of the Florida coast, the houseboat Pioneer took its leisurely course during the past week. Watched for more eagerly than a rum runner, and equally unpredictable in its appearance, it kept winter visitors at their windows and public functionaries on the docks during many long hours of waiting. On board the Pioneer, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. McLean, were President and Mrs. Harding and their friends. They had no time schedule to fill, and stopped daily wherever the President felt inclined to play golf. A foursome it was- usually with...
...whole history of the vision of those who began the reindeer industry in Alaska shows that they only erred in having no idea as to its possibilities. Labrador is the nearest port of America to Europe. It is 1600 miles distant from Ireland. Its coast is easy of approach in the summer, there being no sand banks, and all its innumerable harbors having deep water. Sir William MacGreggor and I collected speciments of its flora and sent them to Kew, England, for a report on their ability to support reindeer; the report was absolutely favorable. Everyone who knows Labrador, knows...
Ignaz Paderewski has been playing at Los Angeles and elsewhere on the Pacific Coast...
...President Wilson, before work can even be started. The suggested plan calls for the use of the Panama tolls, a million and a half dollars a month, to defray the cost of building; and the investment seem valuable particularly as the proposed route would shorten the time required from coast to coast by four or five days...
Admiral Cervera's fleet was somewhere in the Atlantic between Spain and America, and the Flying Squadron was formed to guard our Atlantic Coast. In 1891 Congress passed the Ocean Mail Act providing for a subsidy for fast vessels carrying the mails and suitable for naval auxiliaries. The American Line proposed to purchase two large British passenger vessels if it could obtain for them the American registry necessary to bring them to the terms of the Ocean Mail Act. By a special act of Congress this was permitted on condition that the American Line build, in American yards and according...