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President Roosevelt sends Lyman Abbott two letters indicating a plan to sell editorial columns for advertising purposes by Harper’s Weekly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-10
E. C. Clarke calls President Roosevelt’s attention to an advertisement from the Bureau of Agriculture extolling the virtues of raising Angora goats. Clarke purchased a flock of goats but has found them highly unsatisfactory.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-18
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary writes to the editor of the New York City Literary Digest regarding a book written by Henry W. Fischer, titled Private Lives of William II and His Consort. In one of the leaflets promoting the book, Roosevelt was listed as a “representative purchaser” of the book, which is untrue, and he would like to send a letter to the publisher and the author. He requests their contact information.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-03
Theodore Roosevelt informs Erastus Brainerd of the Seattle Post Intelligencer that a recent advertisement published in his paper, which claimed that Roosevelt endorsed the purchase of real estate “in a growing section,” was fraudulent. He never made any such statement and a company that uses such means to advertise is one he distrusts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-26
John O. Staples encloses a clipping from the Warrensburg, Missouri, local paper. It is an advertisement of a fortune teller who claims to be endorsed by Theodore Roosevelt. Staples would like to know if the endorsement is genuine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-18
Mark Sullivan sends Theodore Roosevelt an article clipped from the Wall Street Journal related to an exhibit of objectionable advertisements in the New York World about which he wrote to Roosevelt previously. While the previous advertisements were medical in nature, the new article relates to financial advertisements, and Sullivan feels that the newspaper is overall very vulnerable to criticism. Sullivan recalls that some of the World‘s animosity toward Roosevelt may have come from the effort of his administration to put “the very worst class of medical fakers” out of business, which hurt the newspaper’s advertising revenue.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-14