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Letter from Homer A. Everest to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Homer A. Everest to Theodore Roosevelt

Homer A. Everest has invented a non-refillable bottle and an improved loom. He and his partner do not have enough money and would like to show Theodore Roosevelt their inventions in the hope he will be interested. Everest explains his family history to Roosevelt and decries the whiskey tampering occurring in Rhode Island, enclosing related clippings. He hopes to meet Roosevelt in Boston.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas O. Marvin

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas O. Marvin

Theodore Roosevelt writes to Thomas O. Marvin of the Home Market Club with regard to the speeches he made in Boston and Sioux Falls. He wonders whether the speech in Boston on September 3, wherein Roosevelt endorsed the Republican platform in Massachusetts, conflicts with the speech in Sioux Falls. Marvin claims that Roosevelt omitted the phrase “together with a reasonable profit to American industries.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-22

Col. Roosevelt and the Sioux Falls Press Prize Automobile

Col. Roosevelt and the Sioux Falls Press Prize Automobile

Postcard advertisement showing Theodore Roosevelt standing in front of the Sioux Falls Press Prize Automobile. Text on the front of the postcard states Roosevelt rode in the vehicle on September 4, 1910. Text on the reverse advertises various prizes to be won from a subscription contest through The Sioux Falls Daily Press, including cars, pianos, diamond rings, gold watches, and more.

Collection

Marple Collection

Creation Date

1910

Address of President Roosevelt at Sioux Falls, South Dakota April 6, 1903, The wage-worker and the tiller of the soil

Address of President Roosevelt at Sioux Falls, South Dakota April 6, 1903, The wage-worker and the tiller of the soil

President Roosevelt speaks about “The wage-worker and the tiller of the soil” to a crowd in Sioux Falls. He speaks about the modern problems of farmers, stock growers, and soil tillers as well as problems between “employer and employed.” He links the well-being of the state with the well-being of farmers, and also of the needs of those classes in light of industrial changes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-04-06