CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA
EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON December 25. Having complied with the annua! custom and pressed an electric button on Christmas Eve, lighting the capital’s Christmas tree, President Coolidgc and Mrs Coolidgc departed to-day for Eapelo Island, off the Georgia coast, where they will spend the Christmas and New Year holidays. Mr Hqovor spent Christmas aboard the battleship Utah, which is nearing the Equator on the voyage home. The crew joined the President-elect in singing carols on the quarterdeck. New York reports a bountiful Christmas mail. Records were broken, and tiie stores reported tremendous sales, some managers estimating that this year found the greatest buying in .the history of their stores. The New York Post Office reported that i 141,000,000 pieces of mail were handled, which is the greatest Christmas mail ever handled' in New York City.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20059, 27 December 1928, Page 14
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