Noisy Parade, flags the Metropolitan Brass Band and free booze. Twain got shitfaced.
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Evening News makes fun of the TE
jokes that they were scrounging for free booze at the Sanitation Rally fundraiser, clearly not interested in helping Union families and clearly not sober ever
Twain writes a straight news account of the Fair
Tom Fitch made a stirring speech then Marshal Sam Arnold was auctioneer. Mining Companies bid generously, milling companies, local businesses, private citizens, some tosses money into a hat. MTIVC pg 188 Virginia outbids everyone. even SF Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows President of the US Sanitary Commission said that the Gridley sack promised to become […]