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Robert Charles Clowry assures H. F. Taff that the local telegraph facilities will be ready for an event to be held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-30
Colonel Roosevelt telegraphs Frederick Herrig offering enlistment with the United States Army Volunteer Cavalry if Herrig can make it to San Antonio.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1898-04-28
Quentin Roosevelt writes to his mother, Edith Roosevelt, to inform her that he stood first in his form with his grades. His name is misspelled in the telegram. The back of the telegram is an advertisement for The Western Union Telegraph Company.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1910-10-27
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Jane Addams for supporting him at the National Progressive Convention and for seconding his nomination. He hopes that women will be involved in all levels of the Progressive Party during the 1912 election and into the future.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-08
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells Oscar K. Davis that an advance copy of Roosevelt’s speech at Canton, Ohio, has been sent to the Western Union in Columbus, Ohio. He states he will attend to the American Press Association.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-13
John Maynard Harlan asks Theodore Roosevelt if he could come see him at his office the next day or on Saturday. Harlan kindly requests an appointment time and to answer at his expense.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-19
Frederick J. H. Merrill writes to Theodore Roosevelt, and notes he is a candidate for the position of State Mineralogist of California. Merrill maintains he would be grateful for any help Theodore Roosevelt might be able to provide in this.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-25
Gustav J. Karger writes to Robert D. Heinl thanking him for sending him a copy of Leslie’s Weekly containing his article on the administration of President William H. Taft. Karger regrets that a paragraph was added to the article without prior consultation. Karger believes that the paragraph could be interpreted as being offensive to Taft, and wants to make sure that it is known that he neither wrote the offending words nor agrees with their sentiment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-25
Third Assistant Secretary of State Peirce informs President Roosevelt of the arrangements for the peace negotiations between Russia and Japan. Peirce is concerned there is not a suitable ship to transport the dignitaries to Oyster Bay and he also wants to keep the diplomats out of the view of the journalists.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-06
Nicholas Murray Butler agrees with President Roosevelt that James Speyer ought to be invited to discuss relations between Mexico and Cuba. Butler also comments on Frank Swett Black’s interview about a “vice crusade” in light of the Western Telegraph Union Company’s relationship with poolrooms. Butler encloses a newspaper cartoon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-23
Henry W. Taft believes there is no adequate foundation for a statement made by Alton B. Parker that the common law can serve as a legal remedy against trusts and monopolies. Taft maintains that it is necessary for laws restricting monopolies to come from the federal level in order to appropriately apply criminal penalties and work at a national scale. Taft also quotes extensively from three letters by Thomas Jefferson to show that Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic party, opposed the common law being applied at a national scale.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-30
A promotional pamphlet that welcomes “our Chicago guests” to Bismarck and features an image of Theodore Roosevelt’s log cabin on the North Dakota State Capitol grounds. The pamphlet reminds its guests about the advances in North Dakota like “17 miles of cement walks,” “local and long distance telephones,” and the presence of two transcontinental railroads among others.
1909-06-01
President Roosevelt informs Ambassador Meyer that he will not consider any other man for the position and views disloyalty to George B. Cortelyou as disloyalty to the Republican Party.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1904-06-17
Senator Burton called with the qualifications of J. H. Richards of Fort Scott, Kansas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-16
Jay Gould appears as a giant holding a large club labeled “Monopoly,” sitting on rocks, gleefully watching a line of downtrodden people entering a cave labeled “Western Union Telegraph Company – All Hope Abandon, Ye Who Enter Here.” On the horizon, the sun is labeled “Strike.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-08-29
Jay Gould is a spider on a web of “Western Union” telecommunication lines that extend from several utility poles and cover (ensnare) Justice atop a “Courthouse.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-07-22
Complimentary frank for President Roosevelt to use during 1901 with the Western Union Telegraph Company.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901
The captain of the cable ship has been ordered to defer action while negotiations are held between James Alexander Scrymser’s company and the Colombian government. Arrangements have been made with Western Union for free telegrams related to the negotiations from the State Department and Minister Arthur M. Beaupre.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-28
Vice President Clark of the Western Union Telegraph Company agrees to the conditions regarding the Pacific cable submitted by Attorney General Knox and President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-12
Hohenzollern is set to arrive Tuesday afternoon. A quarantine notice has been arranged with Western Union.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-14