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If there is a large crowd, Theodore Roosevelt wants to limit disappointment and give everyone a chance to see him. Roosevelt has sent several items to William Loeb and requests that he pay the duty for them from the Douglas Robinson account.
1910-04-21
A throng of people on Wall Street rush to purchase stocks from trading houses that offer various amounts of green or pink trading stamps.
One month after the initial Panic on Wall Street — and a delay of commentary likely due to the fluid situation, complicated responses, and somewhat obscured machinations of government and trust managers — Puck finally comments on the financial crisis, and it is more humorous than incisive.
In the interior of a cathedral filled to capacity, an enormous “$” is illuminated in the place of a rose window.
Anticipating Art Young’s famous center-spread cartoon in Puck a few years later (“Holy Trinity,” scoring New York’s Episcopal Church for its opulence even as it was a slumlord of tenements), this Carl Hassmann cartoon aims its scatter-shot at American culture and organized religion in general.
Anna Roosevelt Cowles requests that President and Mrs. Roosevelt be escorted by Secret Service out the back door of the Church of the Holy Communion following James King Gracie’s funeral.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-24
Anna Roosevelt Cowles expresses concern regarding the crowd expected at the church in New York, should President Roosevelt attend James King Gracie’s funeral.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-24