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Presiding Ladies of the White House containing biographical appreciations together with a short history of the Executive mansion and a treatise on its etiquette and customs

Woolfall, Lila G. A., 1864-; Sangster, Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth), 1894-1981 [Author of introduction, etc.]· 3 chapters· 8,208 words

America stands to-day among the greatest and most progressive of the nations of the earth; and as the law of nations from earliest times has been the decline and fall of one, as another rises to prëeminence, it would seem that this great land of ours is fast soaring towards th...

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Abigail Powers was born in Saratoga County, New York, and reared in poverty. In order to help her widowed mother she taught from very early youth, although still a student herse...

1. Part 1

America stands to-day among the greatest and most progressive of the nations of the earth; and as the law of nations from earliest times has been the decline and fall of one, as...

3. Part 3

=The Executive Office.=--From the time of President Lincoln’s administration the business of the White House began to encroach seriously upon the living quarters. The discomfort...