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Chronicling America is a searchable digital collection of historic newspaper pages through 1963 sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
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During the summer of 1893, President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) took a four day yachting trip with a close friend. The four day absence of a president was unusual, and the press quickly began investigating, turning up rumors of a cancerous growth and secret operation. Read more about it!
The information in this guide focuses on primary source materials found in the digitized historic newspapers from the digital collection Chronicling America.
The timeline below highlights important dates related to this topic and a section of this guide provides some suggested search strategies for further research in the collection.
| July 1893 | President Cleveland boards the yacht Oneida, amongst rumors of cancer, with surgical team sworn to secrecy. |
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| August 1893 | Reports of an at-sea surgery on the President persist, with newspapers both confirming and denying allegations about the nature of his illness. |
