Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1920 — HARDING PLAYS DECK GAMES [ARTICLE]

HARDING PLAYS DECK GAMES

Good Weather I* Predicted for Presi-dent-Elect’s Entire Trip to ' Panama. Aboard Stemship Parismina, Nov. 22. —Shaking the bad weather “jinx” that wrecked his vacation in Texas, President-elect Harding sailed toward Panama under bright skies and over a smooth sea. His steamship, the Parismina, which left New Orleans latt Thursday afternoon, steered almost due southward and during the first 24 hours of the run had covered almost 300 miles of the 1,400-mile course to Christobal. Officers of the ship predicted perfect weather would continue throughout the trip. The Presidentelect slept late and after a brisk walk about the deck settled down in the warm sunlight to read a book about Panama. Soon, however, he became Interested in a game of shuffleboard being played on deck by some of the newspaper men in his party, and could not resist the challenge to join the game. He practically spent the rest of the day in playing shuffleboard and other deck games. The only logical explanation of the price of coal is that the earth ’ has begun to charge storage.—Baltimore Sun.