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Fifteen minutes drive, and the autos reached Swampscott?Swam-scut, as the President calls it in the local dialect? and went out Little's Point. The Marine Guard was drawn up to receive the President. At the entrance of Red Gables, home of Frank W. Stearns, the selectmen of Swampscott greeted the party. Mrs. Stearns, who recently suffered a breakdown on her return from a trip abroad, appeared waving a white shawl to Mrs. Coolidge. Then all went in to breakfast. Afterwards Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge crossed into the grounds of their summer residence next door...
...likewise since he is subject to rose fever. At 4:30 p. m., Justice and Mrs. Sanford of the U. S. Supreme Court called. For dinner Mr. and Mrs. Stearns appeared. At 9:30 the cook reported that the cold water tap was emitting steam. Mr. William Buist, local plumber, was summoned. He arrived en flivver with his tools, but was refused admittance by the Marines until his summoning had been verified. Correspondents said that the Marines were suspicious of him because he arrived with his tools instead of coming empty-handed and going back for his tools...
What is this Institute? It is not known yet. It is not known yet. On July 1, it comes into being for the first time. Two years ago, the Y. M. C. A. conceived the idea, in imitation of the Pan-Pacific Union, a local organization in Hawaii, but turned over the conception to a more general group for execution...
...then advanced to the power plant, well-nigh destroyed it. Police forces of the neighboring towns arrived, but could do nothing. Many policemen were caught, locked up in the local prison. Their lives were spared only by the supplications of three clergymen. Mob rule set in. Stores were plundered. Thousands of dollars of damage was done...
Another home town, last week, prepared to welcome a returning singer. The local press published a diatribe, mentioning in angry terms certain incidents in her past. Exasperated crowds lined the streets through which she drove. When she sang at the opera house, a police cordon was considered necessary to keep her from violence. She was Madame Maria Jeritza who, though born in Brünn, early showed that she had no Czech complex by wedding...