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Letter from Homer A. Everest to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Homer A. Everest to Theodore Roosevelt

Homer A. Everest has invented a non-refillable bottle and an improved loom. He and his partner do not have enough money and would like to show Theodore Roosevelt their inventions in the hope he will be interested. Everest explains his family history to Roosevelt and decries the whiskey tampering occurring in Rhode Island, enclosing related clippings. He hopes to meet Roosevelt in Boston.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-19

Creator(s)

Everest, Homer A. (Homer Alvord), 1858-

Sulzer on the side

Sulzer on the side

A large hand labeled “The Public” depresses a lever on a large bottle labeled “Sulzer” in which the face of William Sulzer appears. A stream of seltzer water labeled “Direct Primaries” splashes two diminutive figures labeled “Barnes” and “Murphy.” Caption: It requires only a little pressure to start something.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-06-11

Creator(s)

Unknown

“I’ve had a perfectly corking time!”

“I’ve had a perfectly corking time!”

Theodore Roosevelt sits on a bench, resting a mallet labeled “My Policies” on his right knee. A large jar labeled “Republican Convention,” which he has just corked, lies on the bench next to him. On shelves behind him are bottles that he has corked: on the bottom shelf Alton B. “Parker Esopus Pickle,” Cipriano “Castro” which has popped its cork, and “Portsmouth Peace”; on the middle shelf George B. “Cortelyou,” James Roscoe “Day,” Charles Evans “Hughes,” Joseph Gurney “Cannon,” Robert M. “La Follette,” “Chan”[…], Philander C. “Knox,” and [unlabeled] Charles W. Fairbanks; and on the top shelf “Bowen,” Chester I. “Long,” “Bellam[y] Storer,” Edward Henry “Harriman,” “J. London,” [and] “Seton Thompson” (i.e. Ernest Thompson Seton).

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-07-15

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956