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.