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Hugh Gordon Miller compliments Vice President Roosevelt on his conduct after the attempted assassination of President McKinley. Democrats and southerners have joined the praise for Roosevelt.
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1901-09-11
Willard Parker requests Vice President Roosevelt’s help removing a “drinking hole” and “assignation house” at 35 West 43rd Street, New York, New York.
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1901-09-11
E. Mont Reily’s Roosevelt Club No. 1 has over two thousand members. Everyone was shocked by the attempted assassination of President McKinley but Roosevelt’s bearing during the crisis has increased his political support.
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1901-09-11
Josiah Strong has decided he would prefer to meet with Vice President Roosevelt in person and will wait for Roosevelt to return from his trip. Strong is hopeful for President McKinley’s recovery but is thankful that Republicans nominated a vice president worthy of becoming president.
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1901-09-11
Governor of the Philippines Taft defends Frank S. Bourns and his business, the Philippine Lumber and Development Company. Bourns has had close relations with the Philippine Commission and played an important role in the Filipino Federal Party. Taft denies Bourns received preferential treatment from the government and considers his ability to diminish distrust and suspicion among Filipinos to be very valuable.
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1901-09-11
Evert Jansen Wendell forwards a letter from Buffalo, New York, to Vice President Roosevelt. He hopes Roosevelt will accept the invitation as this would be “desirable for America and for Harvard.”
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1901-09-11
William Allen White is traveling to the East Coast and requests letters of introduction to Secretary of War Root and Mr. Dawes. White has received President Roosevelt’s letter to Attorney General Philander C. Knox.
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1901-09-11
Rollin Lynde Hartt sends a copy of the Boston Evening Transcript with articles entitled “Warships in Embryo” and “The Man Without a Pocket.”
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1901-08-30
On behalf of the International Board of Women’s and Young Women’s Christian Associations, Mary Witt Eells invites Vice President Roosevelt to deliver the opening address of their biennial conference. The opening of the conference will be on October 29 in Cleveland, Ohio.
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1901-08-30
There will be great disappointment if Vice President Roosevelt does not visit Birmingham, Alabama.
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1901-08-30
The New Amsterdam Oil Company is pleased to be given permission to name one of their wells after Vice President Roosevelt. They regret Roosevelt will not accept any free shares. However, they want Roosevelt interested in their success and offer shares at a nominal price.
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1901-08-30
The New York Christian Conference requests a small donation from Vice President Roosevelt to help fund their conference for Christian workers to be held August 31 to September 5.
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1901-08-30
Frank H. Platt will be at his office the week of September 8 and would be pleased to meet with Vice President Roosevelt.
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1901-08-30
William Marion Reedy has received Vice President Roosevelt’s letter stating that Roosevelt will return to Oyster Bay, New York, on September 16. Reedy will make sure to be in the area around that time.
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1901-08-30
Arnold Scheneckenberger requests Vice President Roosevelt’s help to enlist in the United States Army. Scheneckenberger has been unable to enlist due to poor eyesight in his right eye.
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1901-08-30
Henry Walcott Farnam encloses the program for the Yale bicentennial celebration and hopes Vice President Roosevelt can attend.
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1901-08-31
Nettie Gluckauf claims that her family is being cheated out of a building they own due to a few missed rent payments. The building has been foreclosed upon and is set to be sold on September 5. However, Gluckauf does not trust the lender’s accounting and requests Vice President Roosevelt’s advice on how to handle the situation.
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1901-08-31
J. N. Lotspeich regrets that Vice President Roosevelt is unable to visit as Roosevelt has many friends in the area. He encloses an item for Roosevelt’s attention.
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1901-08-31
James A. Metcalf understands Vice President Roosevelt’s position and inability to appoint his father, Festus Robinson Metcalf, as deputy internal revenue collector. Metcalf encloses some editorials from The Red Lodge Picket and will be supporting Roosevelt as the Republican presidential nominee in 1904.
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1901-08-31
R. B. Nixon, financial clerk of the United States Senate, encloses Vice President Roosevelt’s compensation as Vice President of the United States for the month of August 1901.
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1901-08-31