Valentine's manual of old New York 1924

(New York :  Valentine's Manual Inc.,  1924, c1923.)

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JOHN CALVIN COOLIDGE,
NOTARY PUBLIC

No event in recent history has so touched the hearts of the
American people as the simple story of that night in his father's
modest farmhouse when Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office
as the thirtieth President of the United States. A finer example
of what American Democracy really is has seldom occurred. It
seemed to us wise to preserve this wonderful story in a more
permânent form than the fugitive pages of a daily paper where
we found it.    It is from the columns of the New Yorlt Herald.

If Main Street has ceased its homely reign in the White
House the Old Homestead is to move in. FuIIer details
of the inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as President of
the United States were supplied by members of the new
President's party as they rolled into New York yesterday
afternoon. Mr. Coolidge himself refused to talk. Those
about him strove vigorously to save him from further
interviews. He "was feeling fine" and had "had plenty
of sleep last night."

Coolidge talks through one side of his mouth like one
long accustomed to hold a contemplative wisp of straw
in the other side. From that shrewdly distorted orifice
flows what has come to be known the world round as
the "Yankee twang."

The oath, long associated with the great east portico of
the Capitol at Washington, saluting troops, massed bands,
robed justices and the carven head of the first President
of the United States rising above a sea of faces, was
tendered to this red-headed son by an aged father, a
notary public, a dirt farmer, in the middle of a New
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