Silent Cal become President

I'm on the road on a driving holiday, so this will be brief. Yesterday I journalled about how on August 2, 1923, President Warren Harding died while on a speaking tour. Vice-President Coolidge was in Vermont visiting his family home, which had neither electricity nor a telephone, when he received word by messenger of Harding's death. Coolidge dressed, said a prayer, and came downstairs to greet the reporters who had assembled. His father (John Calvin Coolidge Sr.) was a notary public, and the elder Coolidge administered the oath of office in the family's parlor by the light of a kerosene lamp at 2:47 a.m. on August 3, 1923, 87 years ago today. Coolidge then went back to bed. Coolidge returned to Washington the next day, where he was re-sworn by Justice Adolph A. Hoehling, Jr. of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. There was some confusion over whether a state notary public had the authority to administer the presidential oath.