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writing.The Cheyenne Argus, having asserted that “when Id ARK Twaix wrote his first article, a California publisher told him that lie hadn't brains enough to keep a ranlc going straight ahead in a ■ ten-acro lot,” the Inland Empire re-, marks:i “You aro altogether mistaken, neighbor Argus. Twain never wrote anything for a California paper until his fame as an incorrigible humorist was secure.— His first production was a burlesque Fourth of July oration, written from Aurora to the Territorial Entsrprinc, commencing as follows : ‘Mr. President, LadieB and Gentlemen: 1 wassirodby a Revolutionary soldier, and borne by a Continental dam.’ The sentence so struck tho cditoi of the Enterprise, that he sent for Twain and gave him a place on his'staff, and from that hour Mark’s fame has increased with a constantly brightening radiance.”tottuiha(Poma1ne«ky]amhaiihisattitha“wa“G cvc at i cartiin
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Fort Wayne Weekly Democrat
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Nov 17, 1869
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