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August 1, 1910
The Madison Daily Leader
Madison, Lake County, South Dakota
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Theodore Roosevelt has received 2,034 invitations to deliver speeches since returning to the United States on June 18, with detailed calculations illustrating the vast time, words, and printing space required to fulfill them all.
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EVEN ROOSEVELT FALTERED.
Years of Talk In Invitations He Has Declined.
Theodore Roosevelt recently received the two thousand and thirty-fourth invitation to deliver an address that has been urged upon him since his return to the United States on June 18.
If he made one speech each calendar day it would take him 5 years and 208 days to make 2,034 of them.
If he made one speech each week day it would take him 6 years and 155 days.
Roosevelt speeches average about an hour in length. Two thousand and thirty-four of them, delivered continuously, would consume 84 days and 18 hours, or 254 days and 3 hours if he observed the eight hour day of the Public Speakers' union.
Talking at the rate of 75 words a minute, which is the Roosevelt average, 2,034 speeches would embrace 9,153,000 words.
To print these 9,153,000 words would take 9,153 newspaper columns and would make 1,144 pages, with one column over.
Years of Talk In Invitations He Has Declined.
Theodore Roosevelt recently received the two thousand and thirty-fourth invitation to deliver an address that has been urged upon him since his return to the United States on June 18.
If he made one speech each calendar day it would take him 5 years and 208 days to make 2,034 of them.
If he made one speech each week day it would take him 6 years and 155 days.
Roosevelt speeches average about an hour in length. Two thousand and thirty-four of them, delivered continuously, would consume 84 days and 18 hours, or 254 days and 3 hours if he observed the eight hour day of the Public Speakers' union.
Talking at the rate of 75 words a minute, which is the Roosevelt average, 2,034 speeches would embrace 9,153,000 words.
To print these 9,153,000 words would take 9,153 newspaper columns and would make 1,144 pages, with one column over.
What sub-type of article is it?
Biography
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Theodore Roosevelt
Speech Invitations
Popularity
Time Calculations
Word Count
What entities or persons were involved?
Theodore Roosevelt
Where did it happen?
United States
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Key Persons
Theodore Roosevelt
Location
United States
Event Date
June 18
Story Details
Theodore Roosevelt received the 2,034th invitation to speak since his return to the United States on June 18, with calculations of time, words, and printing needed for all speeches.