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Lottie M. Koons tells Theodore Roosevelt she is preparing a volume containing quotations from the best writers and speakers. Koons quotes a speech Roosevelt gave in Minneapolis before the death of William McKinley and asks Roosevelt if he would mind if she included the in her book, with proper credit given.
Lottie M. Koons went on to publish Gems in Literature in 1914.
Paul V. Collins gives Theodore Roosevelt the names of the men who submitted an article on reciprocity to be published in The Outlook and confirms that Roosevelt gave the men a word limit for the article. Collins writes of his experience trying to get the editor of the Saturday Evening Post to print an article contrary to the line the magazine had already taken on reciprocity and says most publications have only printed one side of the story. Collins thinks there is likely to be a “stampede” at the Republican National Convention and Roosevelt will be nominated.
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1911-12-14
President Roosevelt agrees it was very fortunate that he came to Minneapolis, Minnesota, when he did. He thanks Thomas H. Shevlin for the many kindnesses and sends his regards to the Shevlin family.
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1901-09-27
On behalf of the Minnesota Congregational Club, James W. Cool asks Theodore Roosevelt to come speak to the club on Forefather’s Day. The club can offer Roosevelt an honorarium of $200 to cover his travel costs to come to the Twin Cities and address the club at the Minneapolis Auditorium after dinner at Plymouth Congregational Church.
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1911-10-02
Paul V. Collins hopes to visit Theodore Roosevelt in New York sometime in the fall or winter. He will be speaking at the State Grange meeting at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, and at the First National Conference on Social Center Development with the Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin. He doesn’t believe that the current administration realizes how Northwestern farmers are feeling and mentions that papers are not discussing the issue. He did recently read a related article in the Minneapolis Tribune.
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1911-09-21
Paul V. Collins informs Theodore Roosevelt that Minnesota and Dakota farmers opposed Canadian reciprocity, citing economic losses and betrayal by the administration, and describes efforts to organize a Farmers’ League for protection of agricultural interests.
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1911-09-13
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson explains that the Department of Agriculture promoted planting a kind of wheat that needed little rain in the semi-arid west. Farmers are planting it and bringing it to millers in Minnesota and Iowa, and the millers are complaining because this grain is damaging their machinery. Though Wilson met with the millers, they continue to complain about the introduction of a new grain in their “millers’ paper.”
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1904-12-06
Archbishop Ireland suggests that John Watson Foster lead the mission to the Vatican to discuss Filipino matters. At the end of January, Ireland plans to take up the “Storer matter” with Senator Foraker. The Archbishop is pleased that the citizens of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota approve of President Roosevelt’s leadership.
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1902-01-02
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1917-09-19
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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary sends P. V. Collins a letter from Meyer Lissner, which Roosevelt would like to discuss with Collins when Roosevelt visits Minneapolis and St. Paul.
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1912-09-03
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks George R. Van Wagner for the clipping he sent.
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1912-07-18
Theodore Roosevelt tells Lawrence F. Kennedy that he may of course put the picture on the gun and compliments Kennedy’s work.
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1911-02-20
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Governor Eberhart that Roosevelt approves of the entertainment for his upcoming visit to Minnesota.
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1910-08-16
Theodore Roosevelt writes about his desire to go to San Francisco by way of the Canadian Pacific Railway, but expects he cannot do so without stopping to make speeches all along the way, as he has already received numerous invitations. Roosevelt feels he must not speak in Canada because his critical views on the U.S. position on avoiding World War I would be unfavorable against his home country. He also references the labor union disputes in England.
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1915-04-02
President Roosevelt congratulates Archbishop Ireland on the laying of the cornerstone of the cathedral in Minneapolis.
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1908-05-31
President Roosevelt does not think he can advise James Carleton Young other than to say that he does not understand why he will not leave his library in Minneapolis. Roosevelt wants the best libraries to be “diffused all over the country, just as much in the West as in the East.”
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1908-05-29
President Roosevelt writes to former Senator William D. Washburn to tell him that despite accusations, an investigation by the Department of Justice has found no evidence that railroad executive, Timothy E. Byrnes, profited by securing pardons.
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1904-02-02
President Roosevelt thanks G. L. Rockwell for the letter and regrets not being able to attend the National Convention of Employers and Employees at Minneapolis.
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1902-10-06
Vice President Roosevelt thanks James Carleton Young for his letter and his courtesy. He will autograph Young’s book when he visits Minneapolis on September 2-3.
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1901-08-27
Wickliffe W. Price is sending Theodore Roosevelt a copy of the Minneapolis Vice Commission report because his article was included in it.
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1911-08-30