The (York, Pa.) Gazette and Daily gave prime play to the stop of President Warren G. Harding's funeral train in York. The president was popular then. After his death, the considerable shortcomings of his administration emerged. Background posts: Nixon's 1960 visit to York, No. 2: Dick's stop eventful, newsy and York historian on William Henry Harrison: a 'great and good man' and James A. Garfield: 'York was the capital of the United States when congress was on wheels'.
E.A. Wise flagged the fact that a train bearing Warren G. Harding's body passed through York in 1923.
"I was below the College Ave bridge to avoid the crowded train station," he wrote.
Newspaper coverage indicates York came out in mass to witness the funeral train on Aug. 8, 1923... .
