White House Gifts Through History From Cheese to Pets
A lively survey of gifts received by U S Presidents from early times to the Coolidges Hoover and others. It notes Cheshire cheese to Andrew Jacksons hat to Roosevelt bears and a raccoon and shows the White House menagerie grew from mere curiosities into a running tradition of gifts from kings, towns, and admirers across centuries.
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Muscat
Martin van Buren
van Buren
National Museum
Franklin Pierce
Massachusetts
Pittsfield
Boston
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
President Grant
Pennsylvania Avenue
Grant
Washington Zoo
Roosevelt
Menelik
Abyssina
Benjamin Harrison
Polly
Omaha
Harrisons
White House
Taft
Wilson
Harding
Coolidges
Rob Roy
Coolidge
Sand
Tim
Marines
Kole
Rebecca
Black Hills
Boy Scouts
Coolidge Zoo
National Zoological Park
Washington
Sea Jinx Said To Doom Rustler Captain Robertson
Coast guard and Roy B McCormick blame a sea hoodoo for the Rustler wreck off the south jetty. Captain George Robertson disappeared as the fishing boat broke to pieces on the rocks after a final attempt to beat back to sea. The mysterious disaster follows the earlier burning of the schooner Inez at Yaquina head, which McCormick links to the hoodoo.
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Portland
Ore
Coast Guard
Roy B McCormick
George Robertson
Newport
Robertson
Captain Robertson
Roy B. McCormick
Inez
Yaquina Head
McCormick
Marshfield
Mc. Cormick
Gambler's Trim and Schoolyard Sparks on Broadway
A New York club gambler who vanished last spring reappeared lighter after nine weeks of farm work in Pennsylvania. He built a garden, tended crops, and claimed hard labor beat retreat to leisure. In another scene, Eddie Dunn avoids cigarettes to stay youthful on Broadway. A student in a strict prep school ran a dorm switchboard scam with old wall phones, charging peers for the service.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Eddie Dunn
George M. Cohan
Broadway
Eddie
Dunn
Edale
Bel Syndicate Inc
Husband mails severed finger after wife elopes in Kaunas
In Kaunas, Lithuania, the husband of Mme Marie Schaulis former state opera singer, enraged by her elopement with another opera member, threatened to shoot them both but, urged by friends, cut off his wedding finger and mailed it to her to draw society’s attention to her alleged misconduct.
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Kaunas
Lithuania
Mme Marie Schaulis
State Opera
Woman Seeks Separation Over Husband’s Movie Obsessed Life
Mrs. Claire Rosenfeld 24 files for separation from Dr John D Rosenfeld 30 of the Bronx claiming his devotion to movies drove a wedge in their marriage. She left with their two year old daughter after growing tired of his film fixation.
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New York
Claire Rosenfeld
John D Rosenfeld
Bronx
Gum Champ Chews 45 Sticks at One Time
Betram Smith a McKendree college student of Lebanon is known on campus as the gum chewing champion after chewing 44 sticks at one time with most of the student body as witnesses He aims to learn the record for chewing gum days and then try to break it possibly challenging intercollegiate competition
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Coolidge
White House
Vermont
Prince of Wales
Lebanon
Betram Smith
McKendree College
Waterworks Pays Town Taxes No Levy Colby Kansas
Topeka reports Colby Kansas will levy no taxes this year becoming taxless for a second year. Municipally operated water plant runs under city manager V Snell and earns enough to cover Colby’s taxes while granting residents a 20 percent reduction in water rates for the summer months.
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Topeka
Kan
Colby
V Snell
Planes Open Siam Jungle Trail Says Trade Chief
Don C. Bliss, Bangkok trade commissioner, reports air travel has opened the jungles of Siam once filled with parrots and monkeys, expanding access and potential commerce in the region.
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Bangkok
Don C. Bliss
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Elmo Scott Watson
Spain
Thomas Jefferson
Cheshire
John Leland
Leland
Flisha Brown
Darius Brown
Bludson New York
Jackson
W. H. Peck
Butter
W H Peck
Herbert Floover
Hoovers
Retthaven Behoover
Engleehurst Gillette
Buckeye
Hoover Kennels
Southboro Markham
Southboro
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