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Summary of the meeting of the first Fusion conference. The conference will meet again before June 1 and seek to form a permanent organization in September. The Republicans of the conference are concerned about a “trap” and the German-American organizations want an “honest Fusion movement.”
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1903-05-12
Reports that Senator Platt demanded the removal of three assistant appraisers due to their connection to the silk fraud cases are baseless.
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1903-03-03
Text of the legislation creating the Department of Commerce and Labor.
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1903-02-14
Opinion on several political topics, including the tariff and the Venezuelan crisis.
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1903-02-14
Newspaper article on the Senate’s “Antis” reacting to Secretary Root and the Philippines being brought up on the Senate floor.
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1903-01-29
Text of a speech delivered by Charles William Eliot, President of Harvard University, at North Bennet street industrial school. Eliot encouraged the audience to invest in their children’s education.
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1903-01
Title pages for four of Theodore Roosevelt’s books that will be part of a uniform edition published by Gebbie and Company. The books are Gouverneur Morris, Oliver Cromwell, The Rough Riders, and Thomas H. Benton.
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1903
List of accidents that occurred during the coupling and uncoupling of railroad cars and engines from January to June 1902. These employees currently have no redress but would be covered by pending legislation.
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1903-01-29
Pamphlet with statements praising Viola Gilbert and her charitable work.
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1903
Text of a speech delivered by Commissioner Williams on immigration policy.
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1903-01-27
Letter to the editor faulting an unnamed Southern governor for visiting William Randolph Hearst and not President Roosevelt. The writer of the letter, “New Yorker,” claims that this displays what the governor believes constitutes a gentleman. In a handwritten note, Richard Watson Gilder indicates that he wrote the letter.
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1903-02-04
Business card of David Banks Sickels, Vice President and Treasurer of the American Surety Company.
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1903-01
The jury gave a verdict of acquittal in the case of Hugh C. Dennis and Thomas W. Garland of the Brooks Brokerage and Securities Commission Company. While Dennis was acquitted of using the mails in a scheme to defraud, Judge Adams stated that Dennis had clearly violated state law and deserved to be in a penitentiary. Dennis had not honestly bought and sold grain, but instead ran a “bucketshop scheme” where he gambled on changes of the market price of grain. Adams hoped that those wronged by these men would seek redress from state authorities since they had violated a state law, and thus they could not be tried in the Federal District Court.
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1903-01-21
Magazine article on President Roosevelt’s appointments of African Americans to government positions.
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1903-01-24
Four calling cards of Barbara MacGahan, who would like to pay her respects to President Roosevelt.
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1903-02-01
A profile of John Barrett, the Commissioner General of the East and Australasia for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It also discusses British views on the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and American expansion.
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1902-12-16
Newspaper article supporting President Roosevelt’s position in the Indianola post office case. Complaints were raised against Indianola’s postmaster, Minnie M. Geddings Cox, due to her race. Roosevelt supported Cox and federal authority to appoint postmasters.
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1903-01-27
List of officials, employees, and committees of the New York Exchange for Woman’s Work.
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1903-01-31
This is an Anglo Saxon Union membership card for President Roosevelt.
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1903-01-05
The article expresses support for President Roosevelt’s actions in the appointment of Dr. William Crum as collector of the port at Charleston and in the closing of the Indianola, Mississippi post office, because of white opposition to the black postmaster who had served there for several years.
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1903-01-06