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...tyrant who made Clarence Day's father seem effete. Whether or not he was actually "the greatest living American," he did have a variety of attractions: his memories of General Grant, his Russian ballet girl, his box at the burlesque theater, his priceless cellar, his friendships with Mark Twain and numerous quaint characters of Manhattan's gilded...
Died. Miller Reese Hutchison, 67, audio inventor (Dictograph, Klaxon horn, Acousticon for the deaf); of apoplexy; in Manhattan. Mark Twain was said to have observed that Hutchison invented the Klaxon horn to deafen people so they would have to buy Acousticons...
Died. Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 91, famed Californian; in Los Gatos, Calif. The eccentric corporation lawyer was a fighting liberal, poet, satirist (Heavenly Discourse), had been a West Pointer ('74), Indian fighter, longtime friend of Jack London and Mark Twain...
...Russian listeners like a whole evening's reading from Mark Twain, O. Henry, De Maupassant, Chekhov, etc. They also like poetry readings by stage and radio stars...
From his home in Hartford, Conn., Mark Twain promptly wrote the Post a letter...