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Acting Secretary of Commerce and Labor Smith informs Nevada N. Stranahan, customs collector for the Port of New York, of the delay in the ruling regarding life preservers and children under six years. He details the ruling’s reasons, which ultimately concludes that life preservers should be required for each child regardless of paid fare or age.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-21
E. Parmly Brown sends President Roosevelt two of his inventions which he believes will be useful during Roosevelt’s African trip. The first is an inflatable pocket life preserver. The second is a needle pointed bayonet which Brown believes will be effective against even the toughest wild animals.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-02
“The naughty trust” has a “Hanna for president” life preserver tied to his back. “The public” stands in the shadows and holds up a shoe.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01
President Roosevelt wears a life vest and pulls out rope from the “Administration’s Support” bucket to extend a “Hot Air” life preserver into the ocean of “Taft’s Campaign.” Assisting to let out the line are New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, Secretary of Commerce Oscar S. Straus, and Secretary of State Elihu Root. “Democratic Opposition” lightning strikes above.
By its masthead in 1908, the Rochester, New York, Union and Advertiser boasted of having the largest circulation in a relatively small market. The paper was established in 1826 as the Daily Advertiser and from 1856 as the Rochester [sometimes Daily in its title] Union and Advertiser, but was published fitfully. It major competitor was the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. In 1922 William Randolph Hearst invaded the market in a major way with his Rochester Journal. Cartoonist Philip W. Porter either drew for the Union and Advertiser and hopped to other cities in the region (his cartoons appeared in the Boston Traveler in 1910 and the Boston Traveler in 1913) or his work was syndicated.
A woman labeled “Business Interests” is drowning in a pond of silver coins labeled “85 cents.” She is wearing waterwings labeled “Patent Air-Bladder” and “Life Preserver,” “Makeshift Silver Certificate,” and “85-Cent Legal Tender Dollar,” from which air is escaping through several punctures. The U.S. Capitol is in the background and a long line of congressmen are departing “Homeward.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-03-11
Uncle Sam implores a man labeled “ISCC,” sitting on a railroad bridge, to throw a life preserver labeled “Permission to Raise Freight Rates” to a man labeled “The Railroads” drowning in a river labeled “Increased Fixed Charges.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-06-25