Volume 16 , Issue 17

100 Years Ago - Tuesday 19 May 1914

According to the Tulsa Daily World, dated 19 May 1914, Tuesday, the headlines reported: Teddy Will Return To The U.S. Today. He was to land on U.S. soil later the afternoon of May 19, 1914. It was reported that Teddy had almost recovered his health.

New York, May 18 (1914) -- Theodore Roosevelt's journey from the jungles of Brazil would terminate probably late afternoon, May 19, 1914, as he arrives at his home in Oyster Bay, Long Island. Teddy was a passenger on the Booth liner Aldan, which was due at quarantine about 4 o'clock, May 19, 1914.

From Teddy's South American explorations the former president was returning nearly a well man, after a siege of serious illness due to hardships and privations he encountered, according to Captain Andrew Alexander of the Booth liner, Dunstan, which arrived in New York from Brazil. For four days Col. Roosevelt was a passenger on the Dunstan before being transferred to the Aldan.

At Manaos, some 800 miles from the mouth of the Amazon, the colonel was assisted on board the Dunstan for the trip down the river. Teddy remained confined in his cabin for three days; on the fourth he appeared on deck and when a few hours later, at Para, he stepped aboard the Aldan, Captain Alexander said, the fever from which he had been suffering had disappeared, the wound on his leg due to an operation performed at Manaos for an abscess, was fast mending, he had gained in weight, his appetite had returned and he was in the best of spirits.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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