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Douglas Robinson hopes to visit the Roosevelts on his way to Virginia so that he can write to his wife, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, and let her know how everyone is doing.
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1902-10-02
There will be a meeting of the directors of Broadway Improvement Company on October 8.
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1902-10-02
Dr. Shaffer is sending President Roosevelt a special chair that will allow “easy transportation up or down stairs” via “two steady pairs of hands.”
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1902-10-02
General Sickles is confident that President Roosevelt can settle the Anthracite Coal Strike with a firm attitude.
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1902-10-02
Newspaper article dismissing Grover Cleveland’s potential nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate as “impossible and absurd.” The party organization is against Cleveland and supports William Jennings Bryan.
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1903-05-13
William Allen White has written an article about President Roosevelt for the Saturday Evening Post. He hopes that he can help Roosevelt as a journalist and private citizen.
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1902-10-02
William Whitman encourages President Roosevelt to rapidly bring an end to the Anthracite Coal Strike.
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1902-10-02
Minister Squiers encloses Lieutenant Matthew Elting Hanna’s report concerning “sanitary, social, political, and economical conditions in Santiago.”
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1902-10-03
Vice President Willcox of the Delaware and Hudson Company submits a memorandum claiming that the United Mine Workers of America is an unlawful association and is acting illegally during the Anthracite Coal Strike. He implores the federal government to intervene in the strike.
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1902-10-03
Stuyvesant Fish corrects an error in a previous letter regarding coal carrying statistics of American railroad companies.
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1902-10-03
Philip C. Garrett encloses a copy of a letter he sent to Governor Stone. He recommends strict enforcement of the law and severe punishments for miners who are using intimidation to prevent the mines from opening.
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1902-10-03
George W. Perkins, Chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, reviews a new profit-sharing plan.
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1902-12-31
Attorney General Knox offers suggestions for President Roosevelt’s statement.
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1902-10-03
Several prominent Alabama Republicans have requested that the appointment of Thomas Roulhac as District Attorney for Alabama be delayed until after the November election.
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1902-10-03
John Markle requests that President Roosevelt use the military to stop the “anarchistic condition of affairs” in the anthracite coal fields. He reports widespread lawlessness and twenty one murders committed by the striking miners. Markle claims that a majority of miners are still trying to work and that John Mitchell’s organization is a small minority which is holding fellow workers and the nation hostage through violence.
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1902-10-03
President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America will agree to let the miners resume work provided that the new wages, agreed upon by a tribunal of President Roosevelt’s selection, be paid from the first day of resuming work.
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1902-10-03
Secretary of the Navy Moody thanks President Roosevelt for his criticism on the size of the report from the Bureau of Naval Intelligence, particularly since he had the same concerns.
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1902-10-03
Senator Quay requests the results, likely referring to President Roosevelt’s conference with the anthracite coal operators and miners.
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1902-10-03
John T. Wilson, President of the Brotherhood of Railway Trackmen of America, recommends that the coal operators and miners submit their dispute to arbitration so that President Roosevelt can settle it “upon a fair basis.”
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1902-10-03
Robert Bacon encourages President Roosevelt and compares his difficulties to those of prior statesmen.
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1902-10-04