I wish to thank Susan James, Library Manager for the Bayliss Public
Library in Sault Ste. Marie for sending me sopies of these newspaper
notices.  The transcription is mine.

Sault Ste. Marie News July 13, 1895 p2

PRINCE OF HUMORISTS

Mark Twain Will Appear at the Opera House Next Thursday

Samuel L. Clemens, (Mark Twain), the king of American humorists, will
start on a lecture tour around the world next Monday, from Cleveland.
He will arrive in this city Thursday and that night Sooites will have an
opportunity of hearing the inimitable mirth-provoker at the opera house.
It is nearly ten years since Mr. Clemens has appeared before an audience
and in the interim he has gained, rather than lost in his powers of
humor.  Mark Twain is beyond question the most popular of the writers of
today.  He is unquestionably the leading humorist of America and his
writings are known and read the world over.  As a lecturer he is seen at
his best.  He evokes heartiest laughter from commencement to the end of
his selections, which consist of talks and readings from his own rich
and healthful humor.  There are none but will be the better for having
heard him, and he should be greeted by a crowded house next Thursday
evening.  Tickets, 25 50, 75 cents and $1, will be placed on sale Monday
morning at Price's.


The Soo Democrat July 18, 1895 p12

Mark Twain at the opera house tonight.

The Soo Democrat July 18, 1895 p5

Mark Twain

Mark Twain is today the most popular writer in the English language.
Few men have ever written whose humor has so many sides, such breadth or
reach.  His passages provoke the joyous laughter of young and old, of
learned and unlearned, and may be read or heard the hundredth time
without losing, but rather multiplying in power. Sentences and phrases
that seem at first only made for the heartiest laughter, yield, at
closer view, a sanity and wisdom that is good for the soul.  He is, too,
a wonderful story teller, and many will bear testimony that the very
humor which has  make [sic] him known around the world is sometimes
swept along like the debris of a freshet by the current of his
fascinating narrative.  As a reader and speaker, Mr. Clemens is utterly
outside and beyond the reach of all conventional rule.  But coming from
his own lips his lines gather and convey innumerable new and charming
significances.  Laughter invariably greets his first period and attends
him to the end and ceases with a sense in his hearers of having been
captivated by no mere harlequinade of speech or manner, but by a genuine
and healthful wit, as good to remember as it was to hear.  It is nearly
ten years since Mr. Clemens has appeared before an American audience.
At the Soo opera house tonight. 

Sault Ste. Marie News July 20, 1895 p1

MARK TWAIN'S LECTURE

The Soo opera house was filled with a cultured audience Thursday night,
which was assembled for the sole and only purpose of seeing and hearing
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), the greatest of living humorists.  Those
present were in no way disappointed.  The lecture throughout was
entertaining, and the laugh grinder was in his most happy vein.  It is
rarely that a city the size of Soo has the pleasure of listening to a
lecture of such prominence.