It worked for me; you have to strip out the superfluous stuff that the text formatting adds. Try this (in the hopes that this comes through "clean"):
McCoy shares story on secret life of Mark Twain's biographer

  
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McCoy shares story on secret life of Mark Twain's biographer
 By Mary Ann Redeker [log in to unmask] Local author Max McCoy will speak on his newly published article at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Ellen Plumb’s City Books...  |   |

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 - B. Clay Shannon

      From: Jon Kerr <[log in to unmask]>
 To: [log in to unmask] 
 Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 1:28 PM
 Subject: Re: This looks interesting -- new (?) scuttlebutt on Paine
   
Sorry, but those links don't seem to be working.
Jon

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Peter Salwen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From The Emporia Gazette:
>
> "Local author Max McCoy will speak on his newly published article at 6:30
> p.m. Friday at Ellen Plumb=E2=80=99s City Bookstore at 1101 Commercial St.
>
> "McCoy=E2=80=99s article details the secret life of Mark Twain=E2=80=99s
> bi=
> ographer, Albert
> Bigelow Paine, and raises the question, 'How can you trust a biographer who
> lies about his own life?'
>
> "'The Man Who Was Twain=E2=80=99s Mysterious Stranger' appears in the
> curre=
> nt issue
> of 'The New Territory,' a quarterly magazine devoted to the lower Midwest."
>
>
> The story on McCoy is at:
> http://www.emporiagazette.com/latest_news_and_features/
> article_18b342f5-6bd=
> 2-5367-ba26-b2147f2bd056.html
>
> His article is at:
> http://newterritorymag.com/2016/11/24/twains-mysterious-
> stranger___________=
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> *Peter Salwen /* salwen.com
> *114 W 86, NYC 10024 | 917-620-5371 <(917)%20620-5371>*
>