THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Oct. 6, 1924

¶ Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge descended from their railroad train in Philadelphia just in time to arrive for the end of a celebration. It was the 150th anniversary of the first meeting of the Continental Congress and the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Carpenters' Company. That forenoon, the guests of the Carpenters' Company had been taken to Valley Forge to see Washington's Army impersonated by Company H of the First Pennsylvania Militia, and a parade in which a number of ancient military organizations,...

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