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...succeed her husband against former Governor Noble Foss of Massachusetts. There also was Frank W. Stearns, merchant-friend of the President. Cameras clicked. A schoolboy dashed up with a box of flowers for Mrs. Coolidge. The President entered his car, and the party?a procession of 15 automobiles?drove slowly through flag-draped streets, slowing down before schoolhouses where children lined up with flags, singing. Not having breakfasted, the President did not stop for a peek at the House of the Seven Gables...
...Coolidge drove to Marblehead where the Mayflower is anchored. Later Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Stearns went to Salem and shopped for dishrags in a 5 & lOc. store, while the President worked over his mail...
...Last week, the King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess of York, Prince Henry, Princess Mary and her husband, Viscount Lascelles; Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught, Lady Patricia Ramsay (former Princess "Pat"), the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, onetime (1908-10) King Manoel of Portugal and his consort drove in semi-state from Windsor Castle to the race course. Down the turf, cheers thundering on either side, the royal party were driven in open carriages with postillions and outriders in scarlet and gold to the royal enclosure...
...Miss Duncan reported, Mackenzie got out of the car and asked the coolie? what they wanted. Horrid laughter greeted him. A shot was fired. Mackenzie scrambled back into the car. A volley of bullets followed him and he fell mortally wounded. Miss Duncan, slightly wounded, seized the wheel, drove to the concession...
...education was complete. His father wanted him to study Law. He wanted to study Medicine. So he got a job as fireman on a locomotive. Five years and three-quarters he fired. Then he was made engineer and for 19 years and one-quarter he drove freight trains and passenger trains. Then, one day in 1903, the Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers died and he was elected to the post. He went to the headquarters of the organization at Cleveland. It was his first trip east of Chicago...