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...With his departure Washington-ward definitely in sight, the President for the first time opened the doors of White Court to the public and greeted callers. Delegations and individuals poured in by motor. By train, by street car and by the aid of his pedal extremities came Robert J. Taylor, 80-year-old bewhiskered Negro elevator operator, who has carried 15 Governors of Massachusetts up and down the Boston State House. The President, who was one of the Governors whom Mr. Taylor had levitated, shook his hand in amiable recognition...
...accident naturally recalled the several motor smashes that involved correspondents accompanying Presidents Wilson and Harding. On the former's League of Nations swing to the Pacific Coast, three press employes were injured, one killed. During the Harding trip to Alaska, two more were injured, one killed, victims of a skid...
Thence delegates followed swiftly behind King Gustav's motor to the palace. They listened to words from Archbishop Soderblom, Sweden's primate, to words from the King who concluded...
Sometime later, Dr. Charles W. Eckermeyer, a sensitive physician who, during the 47 years he has been practising medicine, has never sent his patients a bill, celebrated a birthday. To him, to commemorate his selfless devotion to his profession, the villagers gave the purse, the motor...
...commercial field, the most conspicuous developments of the past week were price-reductions in the closely related motor and gasoline industries. Businessmen were distracted, however, by the intense speculative operations in real estate and securities. In both cases, the cause seemed to be ample idle funds to play with rather than great increases in prospective earning power. What will happen next is anyone's guess...