Show NATION WILL MOURN LOSS 1 I OF PRESIDENT FRIDAY WASHINGTON Aue Aug Au 4 I 4 I I N NS S 'S S The The whole nation nallon will mourn I the thc Inca lo 10 a of ot 11 its ll-i twenty-ninth twenty presh president dent not DOt Pr President Coolidge In his hi first of He Ill I'll act acl has haq h s wt set It aside by formal that date dat ns os a daY day dayot ot of and prayer for War War- Warron Warren ron ren G larding Harding who ho died a martyr to his office I Couched In tn but pre c I tho the new president Paid i reverent tribute to hit departed departe l lI chief extolled his and I called upon his countrymen to t q assemble I emble in their ph places of divine and to pay homage or of lov love and reverence to the memory of till the great an and good president It Is I on that th Friday day day Friday Aug Aug- nt 10 that 10 that the body of or President larding Harding will III b be lal laid l to rest at Marion Ohio Gil G n A LY The text lest or of o the tir proclamation follows By tho President of or the United States of or America America- Amerle A proclamation to the people or of orthe the United States State In the Inscrutable ln wisdom of divine providence Warre lIar Harding lIn twenty ninth president pre of oC the United States Stales I 1 aa as been taken from us The nation has lost lo t a I wise and statesman laud and the tho 11 ii t n t r i 1 people a a 0 true friend and ind roun coun whose hose whole I public life was as inspired with Ith the desire to promote the tho best hest Inter inter- Interests Interests ests of the United States and nd the weare of oC o It Its citizen His ate life was wa marked bv by gentleness and lot 10 e and by th the charm of his hl personality he be made mado friends or of all who ho came in contact with him It is meet that the tho deep grief which tills tho the hearts heart or of o the Amer Amer- AmerIcan American ican lean people should find fitting ex- ex expression ex expression Full Y lUO AUGUST 10 Now therefore I Call Cal CalI I in Cool Cool- Coolidge Cool Idge president of ot the United States or of America do appoint Friday next August 10 the dav day oa on whIch the body of ot the dead president will willbe willbe willbo be laid in Its it lint lilt resting place as a da day of mourning and prayer throughout the United States I e th the people to assemble on that day In their respective places of or divine worship thoI there thore to bow down don In sub sub- sub submission mission misson to the will wilt of or Almighty God ant anid to pay out or of o full hearts the homage of or 10 lose lo e and nud reverence to the memory of or the tho great and good president whose hose d death ath has bas hasso hasso so sorely smitten mitten the nation In witness whereof I have bave hereunto set et my hand and caused the seal sal of or the th United States to be affixed Done Bono at the city of or Washington Washing the fourth dayot day of ot August In In the year of or our Lord one ono thousand nine hundred and twenty three t and of the independence of or the United States the oho otle hundred and nd forty forty- forty eighth SI Signed CALVIN COOLIDGE By the president Charles E Hughes t of at State The White Whit House Washington August 4 1923 |