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President Roosevelt rebukes David Scull, a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, for his ignorance in blaming the recent economic fluctuations on Roosevelt’s “action in enforcing the law against wealthy wrong-doers.”
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1907-08-16
President Roosevelt comments on the potential economic panic and other issues. He sends Senator Lodge a copy of his Provincetown speech.
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1907-08-14
In addition to Henry Lee Higginson’s letter, President Roosevelt received many communications from individuals and businesses concerned about the economic downfall and panic. Roosevelt mostly agrees with Higginson, but is confused by some of his points. Roosevelt thinks the global economic circumstances have little to do with any action by his administration.
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1907-08-12
Senator Lodge sends President Roosevelt an article from the Stoughton, Massachusetts, paper the Sentinel regarding his Provincetown speech. He shares that his friend Louis Curtis, a banker, reports a scarcity of money and predicts economic failures.
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1907-08-26
P. Wagner updates his readers on the state of the stock market. He advises those holding stocks, to continue to do so.
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1911-08-04
P. Wagner advises his readers to look out for the stock market “punch,” which will probably happen next week. While readers should be prepared to buy, Wagner counsels against short sales.
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1911-08-03
P. Wagner updates his readers on the state of the stock market and issues a variety of recommendations.
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1911-07-28
Harrison T. Potts sends P. Wagner a check for one month’s subscription to the Daily Market Letter.
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1911-07-27
P. Wagner provides some terse recommendations about the market, which has not changed much. Below the main body of the newsletter Wagner comments on the value of the newsletter and the accuracy of his past predictions, and promises to reveal further predictions in time for his readers to act on them.
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1911-07-26
P. Wagner points out that the stock market has acted exactly as he predicted, and offers several more predictions for which stocks his readers should invest in for long term profits.
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1911-07-25
P. Wagner evaluates the stock market, judging that there is “nothing at all exciting.” Comments at the end of the article emphasize the accuracy of Wagner’s predictions, as he was able to identify the highs that stocks would top out at several days before they reached their zenith.
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1911-07-24
P. Wagner offers predictions for developments in the stock market. While he predicts that most stocks will remain relatively stable, he addresses several specific railroad stocks and commodities, advising either purchases or short sales.
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1911-07-22
P. Wagner issues several predictions about the stock market, reporting that the market seems likely to be quiet for the immediate future.
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1911-07-20
P. Wagner issues a prediction for the economic markets for the next several days, which looks to be in a state of deadlock with very little change at present.
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1911-07-14
George Stuart Smith sends Adolph S. Ochs and Louis Wiley of the New York Times some articles which he believes establish his foreknowledge of some abnormal financial events, about which he previously wrote. Smith takes issue with the Times’ statement that it influenced events, and invites some representative of the paper to observe his work of predicting financial markets so that it can be better publicized.
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1911-06-06
P. Wagner offers financial advice to readers, predicting when stock prices will be at their lowest, and advising how to deal with them. A postscript comments on a recent article in the New York Sunday Herald dealing with predictions of the panic of 1907, and attests that he predicted it first.
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1911-06-05
George Stuart Smith asks for Theodore Roosevelt’s perspective on an enclosed copy of the Wagner Advisor Letter.
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1911-06-05
P. Wagner issues a variety of recommendations for those playing the stock market, including which companies to sell short. The postscript attests to the accuracy of the method use to issue these predictions by highlighting several cases in which the predictions were accurate.
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1911-05-20
Bulletin from the banking house of John L. Williams & Sons reviewing American economic progress since the election of William McKinley and forecasting great economic opportunities in the American South.
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1903-07-31