Court reporting of crazy people. street fights between soldiers and hookers. a funeral for an old woman causes the daughter to faint. MTIVC 154
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Adah Menken arrives
Sam had planned on going and panning the show but is smitten and gets all the other reporters to agree to praise it. the good press will attract more celebrities – and a boomtown is nothing without celebrities MTIVC 156, 161 Mark Twain Book Notes –
Sam has the Mercury in NY print again
“Those blasted children” intro’d as “our unique correspondent, Mark Twain