Dr. R.C. Ellis is back in Shelby from a week’s trip North, where he attended in Washington, D.C., a meeting of the Association of Surgeons of the Southern railway. (Dr. Ellis has been a surgeon for the railway for 20 years.) Five hundred members of the association assembled, and a feature of the program was a reception at the White house where all hands shook hands with President Coolidge.
Dr. Ellis said he got the shock of his career when he gripped the fin of the head of the nation. “He is a little man,” said the doctor, “weighing about 120 pounds; looks dried up and old—very old and tired. He looks, in fact, worn out.”
He said the Chief Executive looked about as animated, as he stood shaking hands with the group, as a wilted stalk of celery. Dr. Ellis visited Johns Hopkins hospital at Baltimore while away.
From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., May 31, 1926
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