Milford chronicle., 1923-08-10
DEATH CAME SUDDENLY
WHEN NATION THOUGHT
RECOVERY WAS ASSURED
THAT SOUNDS GOOD, co AHEAD"
ARE PRESIDENTS LAST WORDS, JUST
BEFORE APOPLEXY ENDED HIS LIFE

Coming as bolt from clear sky announcement of the sud-
den death Of Warren Harding, 10Th President of United
Sates last Thursday evening at 1920 o'clock the Palace Hotel
San Francisco struck the people of the United States blow
and stunned them for days. The official of his
tending physicians only few short before DEATH
had been sangune and had lead the people believe that
well on the road to complete Members of his official par
ty for the first time since his illness had feeling
accepted dinner party engagements and Of them
dining when they hastily the suite Occu
pied by their dead chief.
The President definitely the recovery from
ptOmane poisoning acute indigestion and pneumonia which fol-
lowed in rapid succesOn but death struck
apOpexy Without struggle word and only raising
hand the nations chean passed to the beyond AS the
cast its setting the Pacific the soul
departed Mrs. Harding who during his entire Illness hardly
left his bedside sat reading to him. nurses
and Dr. Sawyer lifelong friend and physician The
den lying still and listening his read to him. He ap
parenty resting quite comfortably To those watching
bedside ne appeared be in better physical condition than had
been at any time during his Illness None of those in the
had apprehension for his saeyand all DEATH
All were looking forward another peaceful nights sleep the
President and were anticipating better reports from the
tending physicians in the morning.
The was scene of peace Mrs Harding continued
to read to her stricken husband The article by Samuel
G. Blythe in the Saturday Evening Post and dealt with the Pres
idents policies She the paragraph and paused
She turned to her husband who sad sounds gOOd 90
ahead"
Scarcely had Mrs. Harding finished a sentence when as
though ne had been dealt sudden and crushing bOw Hard
ing threw up one hand his head ened dropped back
Imply There time for farewell to his beloved
wife, no struggle fight to cling to life. the sun had
quickly dropped in setting just had the the President
departed from his body Sensing rather than seeing that some
thing terrible had occurred Mrs. Harding to the door and
called for Dr. Boone and the other attending physicians It was
ae President Harding had passed beyond and any medical
aid was useless.
DR.. Boone associated with Dr. SAWYER in the obt in dofauo
Of the Presidents e in three other doctors were
summoned They came-Dr Hubert Work. secretary of the In
terror In the dead Presidents cabne-Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur
eminent head of the American Medical Association and President
)t Leland Stanford University and Dr. Charles Cooper heart
specialist.
Their combined medical talent and training was useless now
glance at the still form the bed told that They turned
anxious to the slight the bedside but she read
heir thoughts and with that indOmtabe bravery which has
marked her whole life particularly face of calamity or emer
,ency she said:
81 am not going to break down."
She looked down again at that strongly then
nurse led her to her own room.