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Chaplain Gleeson reports on Americans found in Jamaica after the earthquake. Some were sent to the USS Indiana and some to the Missouri, and supplies and food are being provided. The Port Kingston refused to let American women and children sleep on the deck, but Gleeson found no evidence of discrimination against American citizens.
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1907-01-17
Edward VII thanks President Roosevelt for his message of sympathy regarding the earthquake in Jamaica.
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1907-01-17
Rear Admiral C. H. Davis orders Commanding Officer Barron P. DuBois to issue stores from the Missouri to be distributed in Kingston, Jamaica, in response to the earthquake.
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1907-01-17
Rear Admiral C. H. Davis writes to Robley D. Evans, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, regarding the situation in Jamaica. Much of Kingston has been damaged by the earthquake and ensuing fire, and is a scene of total confusion, although shipping has not been disturbed. The governor, James Alexander Swettenham, seems to have the situation under control, and has declined assistance from Davis’s men. Davis has respected this, but believes that Swettenham has overestimated the security of the situation, especially away from the main city, and feels that the Missouri should remain until the situation is clearer.
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1907-01-17
Captain Pendleton describes the aftermath of the earthquake in Kingston. Pendleton reports that over 400 people have been killed, including the Cuban Consul, and 400 more are wounded.
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1907-01-17
Vice-Consul Orrett confirms there has been an earthquake, followed by a fire, that has destroyed Kingston, Jamaica. Admiral C. H. Davis arrived in the morning offering aid.
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1907-01-17
President Roosevelt takes a big stick labeled “Japanese question” and hits “San Francisco” with it. Caption: “Another earthquake.”
Fortunately or unfortunately, the tragedy of the San Francisco earthquake provided cartoonists opportunities to employ the event as a reference-point for drawings that addressed other matters. But it is what cartoonists do — deal in the relatable; and after more than a century, the earthquake provides talking-points in politics and other fields.
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary provides information on Roosevelt’s actions after the 1908 Messina earthquake. The USS Celtic, already filled with provisions for the Atlantic fleet, was ordered to Messina and Roosevelt successfully encouraged Congress to pass a large appropriation for relief. He also assisted the Red Cross with their efforts.
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1912-10-28
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary writes to Assistant Secretary of State Huntington Wilson to confirm receipt of and express appreciation for the “gold medal and diploma awarded to [Roosevelt] by His Majesty the King of Italy in connection with the earthquake disaster in Calabria and Sicily in 1908.”
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1911-06-19
President Roosevelt telegraphs California Governor Pardee that he has heard rumors of a disastrous earthquake in San Francisco, but does not know the facts of the matter. Roosevelt will provide any assistance he can if Pardee calls on him.
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1906-04-18
President Roosevelt had a difficult time at first believing the news of the disaster that struck San Francisco, California, and sends his sympathies to the people of California and San Francisco. Roosevelt asks California Governor Pardee to let him know if there is anything the national government can do to assist with the situation.
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1906-04-18
President Roosevelt has heard rumors that a disastrous earthquake hit San Francisco, but dos not know the facts. He tells Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz of San Francisco to call upon him for any assistance that may be required.
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1906-04-18
President Roosevelt was shocked to hear of the disastrous San Francisco earthquake, and tells President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University of his personal concern and sympathy for the campus in particular. He hopes things are not as bad as they are reported to be.
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1906-04-19
President Roosevelt tells Owen McAleer, Mayor of Los Angeles, that the Navy Department is already trying to use warships to the extent they are available to help with disaster relief. Roosevelt notes that warships are “singularly unfitted to transport supplies or individuals,” but that he has instructed the Navy Department “to do everything that can properly be done.”
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1906-04-19
President Roosevelt telegraphs California Governor Pardee that all available tents and rations have already been ordered to be sent to San Francisco for disaster relief. He has directed Secretary of War Taft to take up the matter of bedding and supplies, and to do everything that Pardee requests, as long as it is something they are able to do.
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1906-04-19
President Roosevelt hopes that the University of California has not suffered as much damage as it has been reported to have suffered. He tells Benjamin Ide Wheeler that he shares “the horror and grief of the country at the disaster that has befallen California.”
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1906-04-19
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of War Taft of a request he received from the National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials that Captain John S. Sewell of the Army Corps of Engineers be authorized to cooperate with investigations into the effects of the recent San Francisco earthquake on building materials. Roosevelt asks Taft to make this assignment, given the importance of the subject.
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1906-04-20
President Roosevelt relays a message from Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte to California Governor Pardee informing him of the locations of various ships, and what orders that have been given to assist with providing aid to San Francisco in the wake of the disaster there.
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1906-04-21
Father Genocchi thanks Reverend Fox for the Christmas greetings, and returns the sentiment. He will happily help any of Fox’s friends who come to Rome. Autumn is the only season when he might not be in the city. Genocchi regretfully informs Fox that the “sectarian suspicion of modernism” ultimately led to the dissolution of his S. Jerome Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Everyone is in mourning for the recent earthquake in Southern Italy.
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1909-02-04
John Albert Macy’s editorial in volume 24 of The Bookman. Starting with the current use of the word “yellow” to describe bad newspapers, Macy extends the metaphor to describe other types of journalism according to a chromatic scheme. Includes a handwritten note that says “Dear Cabot, This is good. T. R.”
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1906-10-29