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This article from The Baraca Call compares literature from the past and present moment. The author Charles F. Clarke argues recent literature is superficial and too concerned with technicality while literature from the past had more vitality. On the last page, there are several religious announcements and advertisements.
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1911-06-10
Article discusses Theodore Roosevelt’s remarks on the continued success of the United States Constitution.
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1911-06-13
A newspaper article discussing Harrison Gray Otis’s attack on the Herald.
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1911-06-20
Bishop Boyd Vincent recently delivered a sermon declaring Theodore Roosevelt and President Taft to be exemplary leaders who lead the country with morality and integrity.
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1911
The Indianapolis News defends its previous statements raising the question of payments related to the Panama Canal which President Roosevelt has vigorously denounced. Other newspapers have also raised questions related to this matter.
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1908-11-28
Public sentiment is growing fed up with “promiscuous attacks of sensational writers on men of eminence.” The editor of a well-known paper recently accused President Roosevelt of lying to newspapers, and attacked a number of well-respected publications. The author of this article is of the opinion that “the President’s little sermon on ‘The Man with the Muck-rake’ cannot be preached too widely, or be printed too often.”
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1906-06-21
The Times reports that President Roosevelt “is…extending to us the hand of friendship” and is surprised that some southern newspapers portray Roosevelt as a sworn enemy of the newspaper.
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1905-01-09
The Graphic reproduces a sample of the first page of the Los Angeles Times, which it characterizes as “the dirtiest paper in the United States.” The second page analyzes the various articles making up the page, most of which it characterizes as being made up of “cheap gossip and vulgarity.”
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1906-08-10
Governor McLane writes to Assistant Secretary of State Peirce regarding an article about the Japan-Russia peace envoys in New Hampshire.
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1905-08-30
Harold Irwin Cleveland congratulates President Roosevelt on his time in office. He thinks the West is still shocked about the appointment of Postmaster Henry C. Payne, but trusts that Roosevelt’s choice is right. He shares that Paul Morton is pleased with Roosevelt’s take on irrigation, and George Ogden is also regularly saying good things. Jack Raftery, now at the St. Louis Exposition, is still loyal. Cleveland hears that Roosevelt is “shaking the dry bones up in fine style”, but also hears that Secretary Lyman J. Gage and Secretary Wilson behave quite anxiously. He feels that Roosevelt will go forth in courage and honesty.
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1907-12-20
President Roosevelt, in his annual message to Congress, praised the work that has been done and continues to be done on the Panama Canal. Many newspapers have published sensational articles alleging problems with the Gatun Dam in Panama, but these articles are contradicted by the facts, as the dam has not been constructed yet, and the work which has been done on it has been going smoothly.
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1908-12-23
President-Elect Taft forwards a letter from John Ripley Freeman to President Roosevelt concerning the recent trip to examine the Panama Canal. Taft is sure that reports that Alfred Noble has expressed doubts about the dam are unfounded. Joseph Pulitzer is planning to visit the Isthmus with some engineers, “for the purpose of stirring up as much mud as he can.” Taft welcomes this, as he believes that “liars will be at a disadvantage in the end.”
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1908-12-24
Newspaper article questioning the legitimacy of a quote from President Roosevelt that appeared in Every Evening.
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1904-05-26
Cornelius Newton Bliss writes to William Loeb concerning the formation of a Republican newspaper in Germany.
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1904-04-19
John Carter Rose wryly shows his support for Theodore Roosevelt and his policies.
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1904-04-13
John D. Crimmins addresses a New York Times article that quoted him denouncing Theodore Roosevelt’s character; Crimmins explains that during the interview he “never mentioned the President” and declares his respect for Roosevelt. Crimmins asks the editor to publish a “contradiction of the words published.”
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1904-04-04
Arthur Brisbane, editor of the New York Evening Journal, tells Edward A. Alexander that he has not yet had time to take up the unspecified trust topic with William Randolph Hearst.
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1904-03-25
Maurice Francis Egan writes to President Roosevelt about an article he is circulating to several Catholic newspapers. James B. Connelly liked Roosevelt’s statement that a man named O’Brien is not necessarily an Irishman. Egan also acknowledges the return of some books by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1904-03-26
Theodore Roosevelt regrets possibly hurting Dr. Appleman’s feelings but Appleman should publicly repudiate the views of Professor Rohrbach. The published letter from Rohrbach called for German Americans to oppose military readiness in favor of the interests, and possible victory, of Germany and Japan. Appleman said nothing and needs to publicly announce that the interests of the United States come first.
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1916-05-27
Theodore Roosevelt tells Gilbert B. Daniels, the editor of the Oakland Enquirer, that he had already seen the editorial in his newspaper and thought it was particularly good. He also mentions an editorial in the Oakland Tribune.
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1915-06-03