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Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the St. Louis Million Population Club’s invitation to visit the city to celebrate George Washington’s birthday. He enjoyed his previous visits to the city and wishes he could come again. However, he cannot accept any more engagements at present and has already declined over five thousand similar invitations.
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1911-12-11
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the itinerarium sent by William K. Bixby and wishes he could have visited in St. Louis for longer. Roosevelt had lunch with William Northrup McMillan yesterday.
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1911-09-15
Theodore Roosevelt is unable to accept the invitation to speak to the Equal Suffrage League of Saint Louis.
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1911-05-31
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells James Mahoney that Roosevelt is unable to assist with Mahoney’s request.
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1911-02-14
Theodore Roosevelt declines E. N. Err’s invitation on behalf of the Young People’s Work of St. Louis, Missouri.
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1911-02-13
Theodore Roosevelt comments on the letter from Stephen A. Connell and encourages him and his family to visit whenever they are in New York. Roosevelt apologizes for not visiting Connell when he was in St. Louis.
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1914-10-05
President Roosevelt offers his congratulations and best wishes to Archbishop Glennon and everybody involved in laying the cornerstone at the Cathedral of St. Louis.
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1908-10-18
President Roosevelt reassures Adolphus Busch that Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou is “straining every nerve” to relieve the financial issues. The troubles elsewhere are the result of the panic in New York. Cortelyou helped New York so the city can aid the rest of the country.
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1907-11-18
President Roosevelt directs Colonel Evans to provide any assistance he can to the running of the international balloon race into St. Louis, Missouri on October 21.
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1907-10-04
President Roosevelt informs Charles Nagel that he will only have time for one stop in Missouri to meet with him and United States Circuit Judge Elmer B. Adams, after his trip down the Mississippi River.
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1907-05-22
President Roosevelt responds to a letter from Senator Hopkins. Roosevelt explains that the process for selecting an attorney general is the same in each state, and the Department of Justice prefers to select men that it already knows to serve in the state governments.
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1907-05-24
President Roosevelt requests a thorough investigation of the recent loses in the sub-treasury offices in St. Louis and Chicago. He directs that if there is a defect in the system, the system is to be changed.
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1907-02-26
President Roosevelt asks Senator Knox to deliver the enclosed letter to Edgar F. Smith, and further explains his reasons for declining to speak to celebrate the anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth. With Congress in session, Roosevelt is too busy to conduct the necessary research or do the proper preparation that such a speech requires.
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1905-11-21
President Roosevelt informs Senator Warner that José De Olivares has sent the Department of State his record showing that he lived in St. Louis, Missouri, for eight years and voted there beginning in 1900.
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1905-06-24
President Roosevelt does not support Henry Mottet’s plan of a memorial at the Church of the Holy Communion to Roosevelt’s uncle, James King Gracie, and supporting the orthopedic doctor. Rather, Roosevelt tells Douglas Robinson he would like to give some inheritance money to Margaret Gracie Higginson Fiske. The president is glad he was able to see Robinson and his wife, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, in St. Louis, Missouri.
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1904-12-15
William Loeb encloses President Roosevelt’s check for $10,000 for investment and asks Douglas Robinson to acknowledge receipt. Loeb hopes Robinson and his wife, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, have “steadied down” after their “spree in St. Louis.”
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1904-12-01
President Roosevelt worries about Bob’s health and is sorry he could not go to St. Louis, Missouri, with them. The president sends his love to Alexander Lambert’s wife, Ellen Cheney Lambert.
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1904-11-24
President Roosevelt thanks Monroe Douglas Robinson for his note and is glad to hear how well he and Stewart Douglas Robinson are doing in football. Roosevelt tells Monroe that he is going to St. Louis, Missouri, with Monroe’s parents, Douglas Robinson and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, this evening.
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1904-11-24
President Roosevelt apologizes that it is too late to put Elihu Root’s suggestion in the message since it is already printed and Roosevelt is leaving for St. Louis, Missouri.
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1904-11-24
President Roosevelt tells Kermit Roosevelt about the family’s trip to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and how he walked through the exposition grounds with an enormous bruise without letting any reporters know he was experiencing pain in his leg. The president was most interested in the North Dakota and Philippine exhibits. President Roosevelt includes a handwritten note encouraging Kermit to “keep pegging away” in his studies and to not lose heart.
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1904-11-29