03 Aug 1923
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1923
Page
1
President dies suddenly at hotel bedside as wife reads to him. Funeral train to start from San Francisco with burial planned in Marion family plot. Nationwide mourning follows shocking collapse, with Harding's passing triggering a deep national somber mood.
An early morning dispatch from San Francisco reports the President died suddenly at 7:20 last night. Officials say medical failure from stomach poisoning indigestion and a pneumonic infection preceded death, but apoplexy struck silently as the President weakened, leaving his wife Mrs. Harding and others at his bedside in quiet attendance.
Interior and medical leaders gathered as President Warren G Harding showed signs of fatal decline amid a rapid, hospital like sequence of alarms. Mrs Harding, doctors, and Secret Service sought aid as the nation awaited word, while officials and mourners converged on the presidential suite.
British and French figures join other world leaders in expressing sorrow over the president's wife. Parisian prose calls her a steadfast friend of France as condolences pour in from international allies.
Reports from New York Paris London and Chicago note reparable loss to the United States as President Harding dies. Reactions from John F Strean Myron L Merrick Lloyd George and King George all reflect shock and mourning. European leaders including Poineare Mellon and Aniecy Mellon discuss the implications for world affairs.
President Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the thirtieth president of the United States in a morning home ceremony at Plymouth Notch. The oath followed a late-night death in Washington and involved Coolidge, his father John Coolidge, and a small group of witnesses, witnesses recounting a solemn, intimate scene before a dim room and few neighbors.
The funeral train for the late President Warren G. Harding will depart San Francisco today at 2 p.m. Mrs Harding, in charge of arrangements, ensured comfort for eighty aboard the special train. The body will travel via the Southern Pacific route to Washington to lie in state before a return to Ohio.
Washington reports a constitutional debate follows President Harving’s death and Coolidge’s succession. No provision dictates a special session or a vice presidency. the president pro tempore may act when next Congress convenes, with cabinet resignations unlikely to be required unless Coolidge creates a new cabinet.
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