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Show President Harding Is Dead! IE- PRES HEDGE iO ; II SHIP : Wi'i'ii is just received by I 1 ). Candland of this city j -J rostmastcr L. P. Nelson ! j a telephone message from j v3k Lake City announcing the ;eJtli of AVanvn 0. Harding, Wdent of the United states. President Harding has been raking a tour of the I'nited Mates and Alaska during the lisi mouth and while on the wst be was stricken with ftomaine poison Tuesday, and Hi was followed by pneu umn. It was reported by Brigadier General Charles E. Sawyer, chief of the staff of staling physicians on the resident's case, that the crisis j Lad been passed and that "the; president is well on the road j o recovery." This was pub-j Lid by the daily press of yes-1 ferday, and the people of t li ? ; Cnited States felt assured tliati tie president would soon be on tie road to convelescenci,'. I But when we stop to consider the seriousness of the effects of ptomaine, which saps the vitality of a man faster than j aost any disease, and then be-' 2g followed by pnc'iuionia, we can realize that the president j fas fighting against numerous 'listruetive elements of the Lnman body. the end came suddenly, and tee nation today is in mourning. mourn-ing. Flags are raised to half. East in every city and town in the nation wherever thews the-ws has been made known. j The united States is a great nation, and it has an organization organiza-tion unlike any other nation' in the world. Vice-president Coolidge will take the oath of t'Ece and become the president of this great nation, and the: Slip of State will sail on. ' |
