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TWAIN FLOORED BY `SPELLING EPIDEMIC: 7 HARTFORD NORTH FINAL Edition

TWAIN FLOORED BY `SPELLING EPIDEMIC: 7 HARTFORD NORTH FINAL Edition

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TWAIN FLOORED BY `SPELLING EPIDEMIC: 7 HARTFORD NORTH FINAL Edition

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TWAIN FLOORED BY `SPELLING EPIDEMIC: 7 HARTFORD NORTH FINAL Edition

Publisher

Hartford, Conn: Tribune Interactive, LLC

Journal title

The Hartford courant, 1997-08-31

Language

English

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Hartford, Conn: Tribune Interactive, LLC

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Contents

In 1875, Mark Twain declared that a "spelling epidemic" was sweeping across the city he'd adopted. On the evening of May 12, Twain left his Nook Farm home for a jaunt over to nearby Asylum Hill Congregational Church. There he would pronounce the opening remarks of a most exciting evening -- the great Hartford Spelling Bee. Dozens of folks prominent...

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TWAIN FLOORED BY `SPELLING EPIDEMIC: 7 HARTFORD NORTH FINAL Edition

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TN_cdi_proquest_newspapers_255900054

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1047-4153

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