President Harding's Funeral Train, Side B

This is the reverse view of image number 1112003. The text reads: "FUNERAL TRAIN, BEARING BODY OF PRESIDENT HARDING, COMING INTO CHICAGO, ILL. Across the continent the President’s funeral train is slowly speeding. At every station crowds stand bareheaded as it passes. At all stops evidences of deep grief are shown in many ways. Tears are shed, wreaths of flowers are given. Not only along the railway, by which the train passes, but throughout the entire nation there is deep mourning. A sorrowing people from the Atlantic to the Pacific gathered in sessions, humbled before the Divine Providence which, in infinite wisdom, had taken from the Republic its leader, to pray for strength for the new leader and for consolation for Mrs. Harding in her hour of grief. All the people, regardless of political beliefs, believed in the man, Harding; in his sincerity, sanity, integrity and democracy. Every man and woman in our great Union mourns his death as they mourn the death of a dear friend. Not only so, they know that the Nation has lost a wise, calm, sane and patriotic leader. Mr. Harding had a personality which charmed his fellow countrymen in a rare and compelling way. It charmed them because it gave forth in a pleasing manner the qualities that have already been stated. The problems that have to be solved in the administration of the affairs of a great nation are many and complex. Everybody felt that President Harding had been doing the best that he could do to solve them. He was essentially a quiet yet industrious doer rather than a noisy, spectacular advertiser. Copyright by The Keystone View Company"