Description: 2 BEST 1911 newspapers with LOCAL coverage of PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT 's visit to PORTLAND Oregon - inv # 7Y-304 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction. SEE PHOTO----- Two (2) COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPERs, the Portland Oregonian dated Oct 10 and 12, 1911. These newspapers contain the BEST LOCAL COVERAGE of the VISIT of PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT to the city of PORTLAND, Oregon. President Taft’s first visit to Salem came one year after he defeated William Jennings Bryan. Luckily for my purposes this first visit was very brief, the President never leaving the comfort of his presidential rail car. The president, adorned in a golf cap (no detail was too small for some reporters), addressed an estimated crowd of 20,000 people that had gathered at the Salem Railroad Depot from the platform of his car. This cleared up one mystery, our photograph showing the President in an automobile definitely could not have come from this trip. President Taft stayed a little longer in Salem on his second presidential visit. His special train pulled through the early morning fog up onto the tracks that used to run along Trade Street in downtown Salem a 3:30 am on October 12, 1911. His first official act was to have breakfast at the Marion Hotel, where, amidst the "snowy linen, the glistening silver, and the cut glass, the great pyramid of Oregon fruits almost hiding Taft’s face and broad smile," he dined on grapefruit maraschino, Oregon homemade preserves, Salmon Trout Meuniere, scrambled eggs with trufles a la croutons, breaded breast of milk fed capons (read fancy fried chicken), Parker House Rolls, toast, coffee and ice water. Following breakfast, the President was given an automobile tour of Salem which ended up on Court Street, where he was serenaded by a throng of school children singing the song America, before making his way to the front lawn of the Marion County Courthouse, where he would speak to a crowd of 6,000 people. The description of the singing school children perfectly matches the scene found in our photograph and its wording is just too delicious to paraphrase: "The hundreds of children yelled themselves hoarse as the president drew up and thousands of little hands waved the national flags. Mrs. Grace Wheelock was lifted up into the president’s motor car and she got up on the seat beside the driver, Tom Livesley, and a thousand voices burst out singing America. And there was no stopping them. They sang all four verses with a band and when Mrs. Wheelock stepped down, the president soon had them in the best of humor, answering questions about Oregon, the flag and the Panama Canal. He gave them several samples of his hearty laugh, and said he hoped they would remember him for something besides the fact that he had given them a holiday." Very good condition. This listing includes the 2 complete entire original newspapers, NOT just a clipping or a page of them. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. U.S. buyers pay priority mail postage which includes waterproof plastic and a heavy cardboard flat to protect your purchase from damage in the mail. International postage is quoted when we are informed as to where the package is to be sent. We do combine postage (to reduce postage costs) for multiple purchases sent in the same package. We list thousands of rare newspapers with dates from 1570 through 2004 on Ebay each week. This is truly SIX CENTURIES OF HISTORY that YOU CAN OWN! Stephen A. Goldman Historical Newspapers has been in the business of buying and selling historical newspapers for over 45 years. Dr. Goldman is a consultant to the Freedom Forum Newseum and a member of the American Antiquarian Society. You can buy with confidence from us, knowing that we stand behind all of our historical items with a 100% money back guarantee. Let our 45+ years of experience work for YOU ! We have hundreds of thousands of historical newspapers (and their very early precursors) for sale.
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Location: Oxford, Maryland
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