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Source: Daily Morning Alaskan Source type: newspaper Document type: editorial Document title: none Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Skagway, Alaska Territory Date of publication: 26 September 1901 Volume number: 4 Issue number: 255 Pagination: [2] |
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| [untitled]. Daily Morning Alaskan 26 Sept. 1901 v4n255: p. [2]. |
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| Keywords |
| McKinley assassination (personal response). |
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| William McKinley. |
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“Timekeepers of progress” is President McKinley’s characterization of the great modern expositions. This generous statement was among his last utterances, and it is painful to think that, with it almost upon his lips, he was shot down by an enemy of all progress who found in the crowded exposition the opportunity to commit a deed that would have disgraced the Middle Ages.